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You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Distraction.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
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.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
Do less, do more.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
Everyone, Someone.
Truth, Perception
Hours vs. Iterations
Generalist, specialist.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
No, it took me my whole life.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
Truth.
Process vs. plan.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
Cover, story.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Fear is the mind-killer.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Work vs. Luck
80:20
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Chronos, Kairos.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
No great thing is created suddenly.
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.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Distraction is dilution.
Banks vs. Blockchains
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Vision
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Map ≠ Territory
Reason for being
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
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.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
You are here.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Done is better than perfect.
