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The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Comfort vs. pain.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Alan Watts
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
View reading as an investment.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Said, done.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
Distraction, focus.
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 giver is the recipient.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Reason for being
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
Bull, Bear, Builder.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
You are here.
Chronos, Kairos.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
More ≠ more.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Work vs. Luck
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
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.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
NFTs, explained.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Hierarchy.
Creativity before productivity.
Slow down.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Cover, story.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Perspective.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
No one is coming to save you.
Resistance lifts.
Labor, leverage.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Process vs. plan.
More before better.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
