168 originals
Bull, Bear, Builder.
Truth, Perception
Builder, investor, trader.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
More before better.
The obstacle is the way.
Distraction, focus.
Fear is the mind-killer.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Learning.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
The Overthinker.
Appreciation.
No, it took me my whole life.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Alan Watts
Generalist, specialist.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Mindset vs. Mind set
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
No one is coming to save you.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
It's all relative.
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.
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.
The giver is the recipient.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Hare & tortoise.
More ≠ more.
Map ≠ Territory
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
Knowing vs. understanding.
It took me years to play like myself.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
Building vs. betting.
Hierarchy.
Equity unites, politics divides.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Vision
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Distraction.
Do less, do more.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Slow down.