168 originals
Map ≠ Territory
Value is subjective.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Building vs. betting.
Alan Watts
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.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Realize.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
Movement, action.
Switching costs.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Truth.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
Truth
The first step is the steepest.
Everyone, Someone.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
Distraction is dilution.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
The giver is the recipient.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
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.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
It took me years to play like myself.
Failure = feedback.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Perspective.
Hare & tortoise.
More ≠ more.
Banks vs. Blockchains
Observer, expert, practitioner.
More moves and less chat.
Slow down.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Fear is the mind-killer.
No, it took me my whole life.
Do less, do more.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Knowing vs. understanding.
80:20
The Overthinker.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
Each man believes only his experience.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
Builder, investor, trader.
Labor, leverage.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
