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Movement, action.
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.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Each man believes only his experience.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Map ≠ Territory
You are here.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Said, done.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Truth, Perception
Done is better than perfect.
The giver is the recipient.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Distraction, focus.
Building vs. betting.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Knowing vs. understanding.
Do less, do more.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
It took me years to play like myself.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Perspective.
Resistance lifts.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
The Overthinker.
Chronos, Kairos.
Generalist, specialist.
Banks vs. Blockchains
Peace begins when expectation ends.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
It's all relative.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Slow down.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
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.
Experience is up only.
Hare & tortoise.
Creativity before productivity.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Builder, investor, trader.
More before better.