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Reason for being
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Movement, action.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
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.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
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.
Realize.
No, it took me my whole life.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Numbers obscure nuance.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
NFTs, explained.
More before better.
Truth, Perception
You are what you think you are.
Creativity before productivity.
Hare & tortoise.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
Truth
Equity unites, politics divides.
Building vs. betting.
More moves and less chat.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Failure = feedback.
Don't just do something, stand there.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Learning.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
Switching costs.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
Banks vs. Blockchains
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.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
Mindset vs. Mind set
Truth.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Map ≠ Territory
No one is coming to save you.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Vision
Hierarchy.
