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The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
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.
Generalist, specialist.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Well done is better than well said.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Value is subjective.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Distraction, focus.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Hours vs. Iterations
The fool is always getting ready to live.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
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.
Experience is up only.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Everyone, Someone.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
Chronos, Kairos.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Creativity before productivity.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Distraction is dilution.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Hare & tortoise.
Alan Watts
Experience.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Vision
Cover, story.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
80:20
Learning.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Truth.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
More before better.
Truth, trend.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
You are what you think you are.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Process vs. plan.
