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The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Building vs. betting.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
The first step is the steepest.
+2 vs. x2
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Mindset vs. Mind set
Realize.
Distraction is dilution.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
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.
Think of many things; do one.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Everyone, Someone.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Switching costs.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
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.
Generalist, specialist.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Knowing vs. understanding.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Alan Watts
Numbers obscure nuance.
Distraction.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
More moves and less chat.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Creativity before productivity.
Slow down.
80:20
Comfort vs. pain.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
It is really hard to make something easy.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Labor, leverage.
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.
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.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Truth, Perception
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Chronos, Kairos.
Truth
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
Experience.
