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The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Well done is better than well said.
Fear is the mind-killer.
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.
Reason for being
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
Movement, action.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Truth
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Appreciation.
You are here.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
Building vs. betting.
Value is subjective.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Shoot.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Done is better than perfect.
It is really hard to make something easy.
80:20
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
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.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Switching costs.
Distraction.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Distraction is dilution.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
View reading as an investment.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
No great thing is created suddenly.
More before better.
Realize.
Resistance lifts.
Cover, story.
Everyone, Someone.
Experience.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
Truth, trend.
Vision
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
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 Overthinker.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Hare & tortoise.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
