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The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
80:20
Hare & tortoise.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Switching costs.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Banks vs. Blockchains
It's all relative.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
The first step is the steepest.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
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.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Done is better than perfect.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Alan Watts
Reason for being
No one is coming to save you.
The obstacle is the way.
Do less, do more.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
Belief gets in the way of learning.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
More moves and less chat.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Labor, leverage.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Truth
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.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
Generalist, specialist.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
No, it took me my whole life.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
It took me years to play like myself.
Resistance lifts.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Map ≠ Territory
View reading as an investment.
The giver is the recipient.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Think of many things; do one.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
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.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
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.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
