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Building vs. betting.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Truth, Perception
Thought, said, heard, understood.
It took me years to play like myself.
You are what you think you are.
Distraction is dilution.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
It's all relative.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
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.
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.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
Done is better than perfect.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
+2 vs. x2
Think of many things; do one.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Said, done.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
Mindset vs. Mind set
Hours vs. Iterations
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Distraction.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
80:20
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Switching costs.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
No great thing is created suddenly.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
Equity unites, politics divides.
Movement, action.
More moves and less chat.
Talk is cheap.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Value is subjective.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Truth
Alan Watts
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
