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Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Resistance lifts.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Hare & tortoise.
Truth
Truth.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
More moves and less chat.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
No great thing is created suddenly.
80:20
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
Chronos, Kairos.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
Banks vs. Blockchains
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Done is better than perfect.
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.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Cover, story.
Well done is better than well said.
Realize.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
The obstacle is the way.
Map ≠ Territory
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
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.
Hierarchy.
Experience is up only.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Alan Watts
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Fear is the mind-killer.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
+2 vs. x2
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
Building vs. betting.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
