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Making complex ideas simple.

“Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.”
"More moves and less chat.”
Hours vs. Iterations
“Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.”
Builder, investor, trader.
Shoot.
Distraction, focus.
“You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.”
“The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.”
“Expectation is the root of all heartache.”
The first step is the steepest.
Don't just do something stand there
"We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing."
"No great thing is created suddenly."
Thought, said, heard, understood.
“Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.”
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
Alan Watts
"It is easier to change yourself than to change the world."
Realize.
Movement, action.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
“It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.”
“The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth”
Generalist, specialist.
“What you can imagine depends on what you know.”
"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."
More ≠ more.
“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.”
"When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time."
"Price is what you pay; value is what you get."
“You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.”
Mindset vs. Mind set
Hare & tortoise.
"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."
"Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing."
"Fear is the mind-killer."
Knowing vs. understanding.
if it doesn't hurt, it's not growth.
"The fool is always getting ready to live."
"Whatever can happen at any time can happen today."
“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.”
More before better.
"If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone."
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
“We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.”
Everyone, Someone
“The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.“
Cover, story.
“One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
Distraction is dilution.
"Equity unites, politics divides.”
"The robot army is already here—code lets you tell them what to do.”
Process vs. plan.
Hierarchy.
Switching costs.
"The giver is the recipient."
"Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything."
Talk is cheap.
“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.”
"Think of many things; do one.”
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
80:20
"The obstacle is the way."
“Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.”
“Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.”
Labor, leverage.
"There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.”
"No, it took me my whole life.”
bull, bear, builder
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
“Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.”
Failure = feedback.
Experience is up only.
“Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.”
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Banks vs. Blockchains
“After all is said and done, more is said than done.”
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
Comfort vs. pain.
“The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.”
"If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable."
Two steps forward, one step back.
“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.”
Distraction.
Truth, Perception
zero-sum, infinite-sum
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
“If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.”
Building vs. betting.
"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."
Resistance lifts.
Chronos, Kairos.
"There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see."
"Great acts are made up of small deeds."
“Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.”
“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.”
"Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd."
“Peace begins when expectation ends.”
“Fashions fade, style is eternal.”
Learning.
It aint about who got here first its about who stays
Reason for being
“The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.”
It's all relative.
"The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today."
Perspective.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
“Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.”
"If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there."
Appreciation.
‘An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.’
Numbers obscure nuance.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
"Well done is better than well said."
"What you work on is more important than how hard you work."
The Overthinker
"We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing."
You are here.
“Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.”
You are what you think you are.
“It took me years to play like myself.”
Creativity before productivity.
Truth, trend.
“The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.”
Hare & tortoise.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Map ≠ Territory
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace."
Do less, do more.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
"Truth”
"You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines"
“If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.”
"Wealth is a ratio, not a number."
Experience.
"We may define therapy as a search for value."
"Take a simple idea and take it seriously."
‘Control’
Slow down.
"We suffer more in imagination than reality."
Done is better than perfect.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
Vision
No one is coming to save you.
“Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.”
Said, done.
"View reading as an investment."
Thought, Spoken, Heard
"Truth”
“Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.”
"The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek."
+2 vs. x2
"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."
"Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings."
"If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's."
“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”

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