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If it looks simple, it was hard.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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.
Shoot.
Builder, investor, trader.
Vision
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Do less, do more.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
Movement, action.
Cover, story.
Hare & tortoise.
Said, done.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Work vs. Luck
You are here.
Mindset vs. Mind set
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Generalist, specialist.
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.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Labor, leverage.
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.
Comfort vs. pain.
Banks vs. Blockchains
Numbers obscure nuance.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
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.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
View reading as an investment.
Hours vs. Iterations
NFTs, explained.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Done is better than perfect.
Building vs. betting.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Experience.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Value is subjective.
Experience is up only.
Failure = feedback.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Distraction is dilution.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
Knowing vs. understanding.
Truth
It's all relative.
It took me years to play like myself.
