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Everyone, Someone.
No one is coming to save you.
Hierarchy.
No, it took me my whole life.
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.
Knowing vs. understanding.
Mindset vs. Mind set
If it looks simple, it was hard.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Shoot.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Experience.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
The giver is the recipient.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
More ≠ more.
Each man believes only his experience.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Vision
Failure = feedback.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Slow down.
Hare & tortoise.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
Switching costs.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Think of many things; do one.
The first step is the steepest.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Truth
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Banks vs. Blockchains
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
Distraction, focus.
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.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
+2 vs. x2
Perspective.
It's all relative.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
You are here.
Well done is better than well said.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Appreciation.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
It took me years to play like myself.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Chronos, Kairos.
