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The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Work vs. Luck
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
More ≠ more.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
Mindset vs. Mind set
The Overthinker.
80:20
Building vs. betting.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Alan Watts
More moves and less chat.
View reading as an investment.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Truth, Perception
Everyone, Someone.
Distraction is dilution.
You are here.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
Banks vs. Blockchains
Hare & tortoise.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
No great thing is created suddenly.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
It's all relative.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
No, it took me my whole life.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
Value is subjective.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Equity unites, politics divides.
Experience is up only.
It took me years to play like myself.
The first step is the steepest.
No one is coming to save you.
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.
