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There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Hare & tortoise.
Everyone, Someone.
Vision
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
80:20
It took me years to play like myself.
Numbers obscure nuance.
Switching costs.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Bull, Bear, Builder.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Truth, Perception
Hierarchy.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Each man believes only his experience.
Learning.
Cover, story.
Truth
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Comfort vs. pain.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Done is better than perfect.
You are here.
Distraction, focus.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Slow down.
Most people are out of touch with reality because they confuse the world as it is, with the world as they think about it, and talk about it, and describe it.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
More before better.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
Perspective.
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.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Shoot.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
The first step is the steepest.
View reading as an investment.
