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Belief is a skill that requires practice.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Creativity before productivity.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Truth, Perception
Learning.
No, it took me my whole life.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
Resistance lifts.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
The obstacle is the way.
Truth
Work vs. Luck
Map ≠ Territory
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Failure = feedback.
Don't just do something, stand there.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
Hours vs. Iterations
Done is better than perfect.
Hare & tortoise.
Switching costs.
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.
Numbers obscure nuance.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Generalist, specialist.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Realize.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Labor, leverage.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
No one is coming to save you.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Well done is better than well said.
Reason for being
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
Equity unites, politics divides.
Comfort vs. pain.
Distraction, focus.
Talk is cheap.
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.
Each man believes only his experience.
The Overthinker.
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.
Builder, investor, trader.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
