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Think of many things; do one.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Knowing vs. understanding.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Generalist, specialist.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
No great thing is created suddenly.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
Perspective.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
More before better.
Reason for being
Alan Watts
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Slow down.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Chronos, Kairos.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Experience.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Each man believes only his experience.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Process vs. plan.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Experience is up only.
Creativity before productivity.
NFTs, explained.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
The world will try and tell you who you are, and you have to tell yourself who you are. There's this ongoing battle, and somehow there needs to be a reconciliation between the two.
The obstacle is the way.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Failure = feedback.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
Comfort vs. pain.
Resistance lifts.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Distraction.
Truth.
Distraction, focus.
Map ≠ Territory
Work vs. Luck
Said, done.
Cover, story.
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’
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.
