168 originals
Map ≠ Territory
Appreciation.
Building vs. betting.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
View reading as an investment.
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.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
Builder, investor, trader.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Comfort vs. pain.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Think of many things; do one.
Labor, leverage.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Experience.
Work vs. Luck
No, it took me my whole life.
You are here.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
Done is better than perfect.
No great thing is created suddenly.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Thought, said, heard, understood.
More moves and less chat.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
Everyone, Someone.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Perspective.
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.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
NFTs, explained.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
Truth.
Slow down.
Knowing vs. understanding.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
More before better.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Value is subjective.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
Truth, Perception
The fool is always getting ready to live.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
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.
No one is coming to save you.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
