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Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Hierarchy.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Experience.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Switching costs.
Failure = feedback.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
Building vs. betting.
No one is coming to save you.
Slow down.
Appreciation.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Truth, Perception
Each man believes only his experience.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
It's all relative.
Comfort vs. pain.
Labor, leverage.
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Said, done.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
It is really hard to make something easy.
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.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
The Overthinker.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Builder, investor, trader.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
More moves and less chat.
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
Reason for being
Distraction, focus.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Talk is cheap.
Map ≠ Territory
+2 vs. x2
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.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Hare & tortoise.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
