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Map ≠ Territory
Done is better than perfect.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
The obstacle is the way.
Hare & tortoise.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
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.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Movement, action.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Said, done.
Experience is up only.
Creativity before productivity.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Perspective.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Don't just do something, stand there.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
Reason for being
Builder, investor, trader.
Resistance lifts.
It is really hard to make something easy.
No one is coming to save you.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
Building vs. betting.
Labor, leverage.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
More moves and less chat.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Failure = feedback.
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 it looks simple, it was hard.
View reading as an investment.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Truth, Perception
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
Appreciation.
Numbers obscure nuance.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Observer, expert, practitioner.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
Chronos, Kairos.
