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Thought, Spoken, Heard
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
Thought, said, heard, understood.
The giver is the recipient.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
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.
Experience.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Do less, do more.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Map ≠ Territory
Distraction, focus.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
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.
Done is better than perfect.
More ≠ more.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Hare & tortoise.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Shoot.
Chronos, Kairos.
Learning.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Alan Watts
Creativity before productivity.
Realize.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
Knowing vs. understanding.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Switching costs.
Experience is up only.
Reason for being
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
You are what you think you are.
Distraction.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Vision
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
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.
Process vs. plan.
Mindset vs. Mind set
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
No great thing is created suddenly.
Talk is cheap.
More moves and less chat.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
