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Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Don't just do something, stand there.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
It took me years to play like myself.
Failure = feedback.
+2 vs. x2
Hare & tortoise.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
The obstacle is the way.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Generalist, specialist.
80:20
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Alan Watts
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Talk is cheap.
Said, done.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
Distraction is dilution.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Realize.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Distraction.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Truth
Hours vs. Iterations
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Reason for being
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Builder, investor, trader.
More ≠ more.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Labor, leverage.
Experience is up only.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Cover, story.
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.
Learning.
Hierarchy.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
The first step is the steepest.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Slow down.
Each man believes only his experience.
Truth, Perception
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Knowing vs. understanding.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Truth, trend.
