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Hare & tortoise.
Value is subjective.
Generalist, specialist.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Slow down.
No great thing is created suddenly.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Well done is better than well said.
Experience is up only.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
More ≠ more.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
Failure = feedback.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
View reading as an investment.
The Overthinker.
The obstacle is the way.
80:20
Cover, story.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
More moves and less chat.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Appreciation.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
When you feel like giving up is precisely the point everybody else gives up. So it’s at that point that you must put in extra effort.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Work vs. Luck
Distraction is dilution.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Truth, trend.
Learning.
Truth
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Movement, action.
Map ≠ Territory
Truth, Perception
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
You try to do the best with what you've got and ignore everything else. That's why horses get blinders in horse racing: You look at the horse next to you, and you lose a step.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
The giver is the recipient.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Perspective.
Mindset vs. Mind set
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
The world will try and tell you who you are, and you have to tell yourself who you are. There's this ongoing battle, and somehow there needs to be a reconciliation between the two.
Said, done.
Most people are out of touch with reality because they confuse the world as it is, with the world as they think about it, and talk about it, and describe it.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
