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You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Distraction is dilution.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
It's all relative.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Reason for being
Appreciation.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
Failure = feedback.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Builder, investor, trader.
Learning.
More ≠ more.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Distraction.
View reading as an investment.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Building vs. betting.
No one is coming to save you.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
Map ≠ Territory
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Creativity before productivity.
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.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
You are here.
Experience.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Do less, do more.
Cover, story.
Done is better than perfect.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
No great thing is created suddenly.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Experience is up only.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
The obstacle is the way.
Generalist, specialist.
Alan Watts
More before better.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
You are what you think you are.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
80:20
Hierarchy.
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.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
Hours vs. Iterations
