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We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Perspective.
You are what you think you are.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Everyone, Someone.
More before better.
Process vs. plan.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
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.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Cover, story.
Builder, investor, trader.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
NFTs, explained.
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.
Numbers obscure nuance.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Hare & tortoise.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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.
Knowing vs. understanding.
The first step is the steepest.
Failure = feedback.
Slow down.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
Distraction is dilution.
It's all relative.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
More moves and less chat.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
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.
Realize.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Banks vs. Blockchains
Truth
Value is subjective.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
