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Appreciation.
Distraction is dilution.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
Truth
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Each man believes only his experience.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
It is really hard to make something easy.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Truth.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Do less, do more.
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.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Creativity before productivity.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
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.
More before better.
Experience is up only.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Experience.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Building vs. betting.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
Truth, trend.
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.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
80:20
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Chronos, Kairos.
Numbers obscure nuance.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Banks vs. Blockchains
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Reason for being
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
The giver is the recipient.
Perspective.
Process vs. plan.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
+2 vs. x2
The Overthinker.
