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Resistance lifts.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
More ≠ more.
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.
Process vs. plan.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Everyone, Someone.
Perspective.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Hare & tortoise.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
Said, done.
It took me years to play like myself.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Talk is cheap.
Done is better than perfect.
Cover, story.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Don't just do something, stand there.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Movement, action.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Vision
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Work vs. Luck
zero-sum, infinite-sum
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.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
More moves and less chat.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Alan Watts
Appreciation.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
More before better.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Distraction is dilution.
Generalist, specialist.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Labor, leverage.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
Mindset vs. Mind set