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Everyone, Someone.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
More ≠ more.
Done is better than perfect.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
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.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Building vs. betting.
Builder, investor, trader.
Numbers obscure nuance.
The obstacle is the way.
Perspective.
Banks vs. Blockchains
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Shoot.
Truth, Perception
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
The fool is always getting ready to live.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
The Overthinker.
Distraction, focus.
No, it took me my whole life.
Switching costs.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
No one is coming to save you.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
It's all relative.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
You are what you think you are.
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.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Chronos, Kairos.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
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.
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.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Generalist, specialist.
Cover, story.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Truth.
