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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.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Alan Watts
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
Truth, Perception
Builder, investor, trader.
Hare & tortoise.
Slow down.
Process vs. plan.
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.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Appreciation.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
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.
The giver is the recipient.
Mindset vs. Mind set
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Banks vs. Blockchains
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Numbers obscure nuance.
More ≠ more.
Think of many things; do one.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
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.
Distraction.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
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.
It took me years to play like myself.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Knowing vs. understanding.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
Perspective.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
+2 vs. x2
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Shoot.
Chronos, Kairos.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
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.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
