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One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
Banks vs. Blockchains
View reading as an investment.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Failure = feedback.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
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.
Map ≠ Territory
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.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Learning.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Process vs. plan.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Realize.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Everyone, Someone.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Alan Watts
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Perspective.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Resistance lifts.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Switching costs.
Knowing vs. understanding.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
The Overthinker.
The obstacle is the way.
Hare & tortoise.
Experience.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Shoot.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
Hierarchy.
Talk is cheap.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Truth
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Movement, action.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Fear is the mind-killer.
+2 vs. x2
The giver is the recipient.
No one is coming to save you.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
