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Focus is determined by what you ignore.
No, it took me my whole life.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
No one is coming to save you.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Learning.
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.
Failure = feedback.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
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.
Truth, Perception
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
You are here.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Hours vs. Iterations
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Building vs. betting.
Cover, story.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
Equity unites, politics divides.
Comfort vs. pain.
Builder, investor, trader.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
The giver is the recipient.
Everyone, Someone.
Experience.
Distraction, focus.
Chronos, Kairos.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Hare & tortoise.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
The Overthinker.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Mindset vs. Mind set
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.
Each man believes only his experience.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
Switching costs.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Generalist, specialist.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Slow down.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
+2 vs. x2
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
Creativity before productivity.
