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Hierarchy.
Work vs. Luck
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
Switching costs.
Cover, story.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Done is better than perfect.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Creativity before productivity.
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.
It is really hard to make something easy.
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.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
You are here.
Hare & tortoise.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
Shoot.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
More ≠ more.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
The obstacle is the way.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
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.
The Overthinker.
Comfort vs. pain.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
Don't just do something, stand there.
The giver is the recipient.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
No great thing is created suddenly.
Movement, action.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Experience.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
Truth
View reading as an investment.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Fear is the mind-killer.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
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.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
