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Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Process vs. plan.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Distraction.
Chronos, Kairos.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Each man believes only his experience.
Distraction, focus.
Perspective.
Alan Watts
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Hare & tortoise.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
Banks vs. Blockchains
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Truth.
You are here.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
More before better.
Shoot.
80:20
Truth, trend.
Equity unites, politics divides.
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.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Numbers obscure nuance.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Generalist, specialist.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Done is better than perfect.
Do less, do more.
NFTs, explained.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
No one is coming to save you.
Appreciation.
No, it took me my whole life.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
The obstacle is the way.
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.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Knowing vs. understanding.
Resistance lifts.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.