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Map ≠ Territory
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Vision
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Hare & tortoise.
Process vs. plan.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
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.
More before better.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Hierarchy.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
Experience.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
The first step is the steepest.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
Creativity before productivity.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
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.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
Cover, story.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Mindset vs. Mind set
Think of many things; do one.
Distraction, focus.
Failure = feedback.
80:20
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Shoot.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
View reading as an investment.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
It's all relative.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
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.
Truth
Knowing vs. understanding.
Perspective.
More moves and less chat.
Building vs. betting.
