168 originals
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.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
Building vs. betting.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Resistance lifts.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
It's all relative.
The Overthinker.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Do less, do more.
Switching costs.
Failure = feedback.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
Work vs. Luck
NFTs, explained.
You are here.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Each man believes only his experience.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Truth, trend.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
More moves and less chat.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
Truth
Everyone, Someone.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Distraction is dilution.
Done is better than perfect.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Slow down.
Perspective.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
No one is coming to save you.
Labor, leverage.
Hare & tortoise.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
80:20
Movement, action.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Appreciation.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Equity unites, politics divides.
+2 vs. x2
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
