Thoughts

• You need to make yourself a person unfurled of being liked. If someone dislikes you, that's not too bad. It's not your job to make people like you. It's your job to be likable. If they make that category mistake, it's their own problem.
• I only have three questions in life: What do I want to do? Where? With whom?
• Being uninformed in a field can be good. Then you are forced to use first-principle thinking.
• If you keep on attacking something, nothing wants to stand in front of anything that is relentless.
• Retrospective sensemaking: you can only connect the dots backwards.
• Your most valuable asset is time.
• Discipline dissolves doubt.
• Love is a decision, not a feeling.
• The last time I felt overwhelmed with providing an answer was when my boss asked me: who are you, really? What a person is cannot be boiled down to a single word.
• Creativity is the act of making the obvious obvious before it's obvious.
• It's easy to spend a decade being busy and stressed every day, feeling like you're working hard and creating movement, but not actually moving forward.
• The highest form of living is to merge thinking and creating in one continuous flow state.
• What you cannot create, you do not understand. Start from scratch.
• Education is not the knowledge of facts, but the training of the mind to think.
• Happiness isn't random, it's a formula. It's the gap between life's events and your expectations. Match or exceed them, and you're happy. Fall short, and you're not.
• You can do big things with small teams, but it's hard to do small things with big teams.
• If you want to be liked by everyone, sell ice cream.
• You are what you think. It's as simple as that.
• Knowledge needs to be acted on to become power. Knowledge alone is no power.
• Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like.