168 originals
Hare & tortoise.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
Builder, investor, trader.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Chronos, Kairos.
Resistance lifts.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
It took me years to play like myself.
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.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Learning.
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.
NFTs, explained.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Slow down.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
Movement, action.
Realize.
You are here.
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.
Talk is cheap.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Shoot.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
Said, done.
Appreciation.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
More moves and less chat.
Generalist, specialist.
No one is coming to save you.
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.
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.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
Switching costs.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
The obstacle is the way.
Distraction, focus.
Map ≠ Territory
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.