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It took me years to play like myself.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Truth
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Distraction, focus.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
More ≠ more.
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.
Done is better than perfect.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
More before better.
No one is coming to save you.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Process vs. plan.
Distraction.
Work vs. Luck
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
Said, done.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
Vision
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Comfort vs. pain.
No, it took me my whole life.
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.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
View reading as an investment.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
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.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Talk is cheap.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Hierarchy.
Cover, story.
Think of many things; do one.
Reason for being
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
You are what you think you are.
Everyone, Someone.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
Hours vs. Iterations
NFTs, explained.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
