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We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Building vs. betting.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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.
Switching costs.
Distraction, focus.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Labor, leverage.
Generalist, specialist.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Chronos, Kairos.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
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.
Each man believes only his experience.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Builder, investor, trader.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Cover, story.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
Shoot.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
More before better.
Creativity before productivity.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
NFTs, explained.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
You are what you think you are.
It is really hard to make something easy.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
View reading as an investment.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Slow down.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Learning.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
The obstacle is the way.
The first step is the steepest.
More ≠ more.
Distraction.
Numbers obscure nuance.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Vision
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Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
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