Making complex ideas simple.

If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.

Building vs. betting.

We may define therapy as a search for value.

Reason for being

It's all relative.

Fashions fade, style is eternal.

Mindset vs. Mind set

Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.

Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.

Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.

We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.

Map ≠ Territory

Focus is determined by what you ignore.

It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.

Truth, Perception

Vision

Price is what you pay; value is what you get.

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.

Comfort vs. pain.

Hours vs. Iterations

We suffer more in imagination than reality.

More before better.

Each man believes only his experience.

Realize.

If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.

Process vs. plan.

Belief gets in the way of learning.

Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.

Hierarchy.

Belief is a skill that requires practice.

Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.

The first step is the steepest.

The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.

You are what you think you are.

Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.

Work vs. Luck

Observer, expert, practitioner.

Alan Watts

If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.

The fool is always getting ready to live.

The more we know, the more we know we don't know.

‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.

More moves and less chat.

The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.

Switching costs.

Peace begins when expectation ends.

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

Movement, action.

If it looks simple, it was hard.

Said, done.

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.

Perspective.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

You are here.

zero-sum, infinite-sum