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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.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Value is subjective.
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.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Done is better than perfect.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
Hours vs. Iterations
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
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.
Well done is better than well said.
Chronos, Kairos.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
The giver is the recipient.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Builder, investor, trader.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Appreciation.
Numbers obscure nuance.
NFTs, explained.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Labor, leverage.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
Distraction is dilution.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Switching costs.
You are what you think you are.
Everyone, Someone.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Learning.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
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.
Hierarchy.
No great thing is created suddenly.
You are here.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
More moves and less chat.
Realize.
Do less, do more.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
