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The first step is the steepest.
Everyone, Someone.
No one is coming to save you.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
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.
Hare & tortoise.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Experience.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
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.
Truth.
Builder, investor, trader.
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
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Cover, story.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
+2 vs. x2
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
The obstacle is the way.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Appreciation.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Process vs. plan.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Done is better than perfect.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
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.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Switching costs.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Alan Watts
Creativity before productivity.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Hours vs. Iterations
Reason for being
It took me years to play like myself.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Learning.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
Work vs. Luck
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Numbers obscure nuance.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Think of many things; do one.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Failure = feedback.
