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Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
Reason for being
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Truth
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Done is better than perfect.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Realize.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
You are here.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
80:20
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Slow down.
Learning.
Resistance lifts.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
Hierarchy.
More moves and less chat.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
Talk is cheap.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Distraction.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
More ≠ more.
Switching costs.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
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.
Distraction, focus.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Cover, story.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
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.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Hare & tortoise.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Labor, leverage.
The giver is the recipient.
More before better.
Generalist, specialist.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Said, done.
