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The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Failure = feedback.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Learning.
Hare & tortoise.
Realize.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
Switching costs.
NFTs, explained.
Numbers obscure nuance.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
Movement, action.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
Creativity before productivity.
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.
Truth
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Everyone, Someone.
More moves and less chat.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
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.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Shoot.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Distraction.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
Equity unites, politics divides.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Each man believes only his experience.
More ≠ more.
Work vs. Luck
Map ≠ Territory
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.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Comfort vs. pain.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Truth.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Done is better than perfect.
The Overthinker.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
The first step is the steepest.
