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Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Truth, Perception
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Building vs. betting.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Hierarchy.
Learning.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
Said, done.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
More before better.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
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.
Work vs. Luck
Comfort vs. pain.
Reason for being
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
Vision
It is really hard to make something easy.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
No one is coming to save you.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
Knowing vs. understanding.
Each man believes only his experience.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
View reading as an investment.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Process vs. plan.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
Everyone, Someone.
Well done is better than well said.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Map ≠ Territory
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Generalist, specialist.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
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.
Labor, leverage.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
The Overthinker.
