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Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Distraction is dilution.
Reason for being
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Hierarchy.
Creativity before productivity.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Hare & tortoise.
Movement, action.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Fear is the mind-killer.
Hours vs. Iterations
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
More before better.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
Generalist, specialist.
Appreciation.
Learning.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
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.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
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.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Failure = feedback.
Map ≠ Territory
No, it took me my whole life.
No one is coming to save you.
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.
Value is subjective.
Vision
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.
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.
Mindset vs. Mind set
Builder, investor, trader.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
Truth.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
80:20
Talk is cheap.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
