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The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
The first step is the steepest.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
The Overthinker.
Done is better than perfect.
The obstacle is the way.
No great thing is created suddenly.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Truth.
Realize.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
No one is coming to save you.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Process vs. plan.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Knowing vs. understanding.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Cover, story.
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.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Movement, action.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Hierarchy.
+2 vs. x2
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Labor, leverage.
Experience is up only.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Distraction.
Alan Watts
The fool is always getting ready to live.
It's all relative.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Creativity before productivity.
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.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
Truth
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
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.
Don't just do something, stand there.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
Builder, investor, trader.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Appreciation.
