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Reason for being
Distraction is dilution.
Everyone, Someone.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Learning.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Hare & tortoise.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Cover, story.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
Switching costs.
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.
View reading as an investment.
Labor, leverage.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Said, done.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
You are what you think you are.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
No one is coming to save you.
Perspective.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Truth.
Map ≠ Territory
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Numbers obscure nuance.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
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.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
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.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
It took me years to play like myself.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
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.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Creativity before productivity.
Hours vs. Iterations
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
The obstacle is the way.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Building vs. betting.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Chronos, Kairos.
You are here.
No, it took me my whole life.
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.
Alan Watts
