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Map ≠ Territory
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
The giver is the recipient.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Distraction.
Perspective.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Process vs. plan.
Each man believes only his experience.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Experience.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
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.
Value is subjective.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Hierarchy.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Hare & tortoise.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Vision
Labor, leverage.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Learning.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
The obstacle is the way.
Think of many things; do one.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
It's all relative.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
More ≠ more.
View reading as an investment.
When you feel like giving up is precisely the point everybody else gives up. So it’s at that point that you must put in extra effort.
Realize.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
Alan Watts
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
No, it took me my whole life.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Appreciation.
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.
80:20
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
