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An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Distraction is dilution.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Everyone, Someone.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Numbers obscure nuance.
Hours vs. Iterations
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.
Experience is up only.
Learning.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
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 you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
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.
Reason for being
The Overthinker.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
The obstacle is the way.
Comfort vs. pain.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
Switching costs.
No one is coming to save you.
Mindset vs. Mind set
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
Truth
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Equity unites, politics divides.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
+2 vs. x2
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.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
More ≠ more.
Alan Watts
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Shoot.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
Experience.
Chronos, Kairos.
Resistance lifts.
Knowing vs. understanding.
Vision
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
