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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.
Experience.
Everyone, Someone.
Talk is cheap.
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.
+2 vs. x2
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Distraction is dilution.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Switching costs.
Think of many things; do one.
Experience is up only.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Banks vs. Blockchains
The Overthinker.
Do less, do more.
Shoot.
Hierarchy.
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.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Equity unites, politics divides.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
The obstacle is the way.
Chronos, Kairos.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Learning.
Reason for being
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
Value is subjective.
Distraction.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Don't just do something, stand there.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Numbers obscure nuance.
No one is coming to save you.
Hare & tortoise.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Creativity before productivity.
80:20
Thought, Spoken, Heard
When you feel like giving up is precisely the point everybody else gives up. So it’s at that point that you must put in extra effort.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
You are here.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
