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If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
Work vs. Luck
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Comfort vs. pain.
More before better.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Switching costs.
Vision
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Hare & tortoise.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Everyone, Someone.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
The giver is the recipient.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Labor, leverage.
Talk is cheap.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
+2 vs. x2
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Hierarchy.
Slow down.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
Movement, action.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
More ≠ more.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
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.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Distraction is dilution.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Distraction.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
It took me years to play like myself.
Hours vs. Iterations
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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.
Alan Watts
Shoot.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Each man believes only his experience.
