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The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
No, it took me my whole life.
Building vs. betting.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Everyone, Someone.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Vision
More before better.
Switching costs.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Numbers obscure nuance.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Knowing vs. understanding.
Truth
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
It's all relative.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Generalist, specialist.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Each man believes only his experience.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Truth, Perception
Hours vs. Iterations
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Shoot.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Distraction, focus.
Creativity before productivity.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
Comfort vs. pain.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
It is really hard to make something easy.
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.
Mindset vs. Mind set
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Hierarchy.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
Truth, trend.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
