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You are what you think you are.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Done is better than perfect.
Value is subjective.
More ≠ more.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Truth.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Labor, leverage.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Work vs. Luck
Switching costs.
Hare & tortoise.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Resistance lifts.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
It is really hard to make something easy.
It took me years to play like myself.
Process vs. plan.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Chronos, Kairos.
Comfort vs. pain.
Each man believes only his experience.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
It's all relative.
Distraction.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Vision
Map ≠ Territory
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
Perspective.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Banks vs. Blockchains
Truth, trend.
You are here.
Building vs. betting.
Said, done.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
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.
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.
Well done is better than well said.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
Reason for being
