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Reason for being
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
Think of many things; do one.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Comfort vs. pain.
Creativity before productivity.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
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.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
Hare & tortoise.
Process vs. plan.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
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.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Movement, action.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Cover, story.
Distraction, focus.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Resistance lifts.
Each man believes only his experience.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Equity unites, politics divides.
Chronos, Kairos.
Distraction is dilution.
Do less, do more.
Said, done.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Learning.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Truth.
The giver is the recipient.
Realize.
Hours vs. Iterations
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
No great thing is created suddenly.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Distraction.
Experience is up only.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Slow down.
Well done is better than well said.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
No one is coming to save you.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
No, it took me my whole life.
Appreciation.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
More ≠ more.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
