168 originals
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Observer, expert, practitioner.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Said, done.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Alan Watts
Shoot.
Truth, trend.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
Comfort vs. pain.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Appreciation.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
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.
Process vs. plan.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Building vs. betting.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
Everyone, Someone.
Hare & tortoise.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
Chronos, Kairos.
Well done is better than well said.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
Builder, investor, trader.
Switching costs.
Equity unites, politics divides.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
More moves and less chat.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
You are here.
It is really hard to make something easy.
It took me years to play like myself.
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.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
