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Building vs. betting.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
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.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
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.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Generalist, specialist.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
Switching costs.
Mindset vs. Mind set
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Shoot.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
The fool is always getting ready to live.
No, it took me my whole life.
Distraction, focus.
Map ≠ Territory
Movement, action.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
The Overthinker.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Think of many things; do one.
Banks vs. Blockchains
Each man believes only his experience.
It's all relative.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Everyone, Someone.
You are here.
Reason for being
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Done is better than perfect.
Hours vs. Iterations
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Cover, story.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Process vs. plan.
Slow down.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
