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• Don’t gamble. Even if you have a 50/50 bet, the pain of loss is 2x the pleasure of gain so your expected value is still negative.
• Talk to yourself the same way you would talk to your best friend
• Don't seek advice, seek questions to ask yourself
• Be clear in what you want and flexible in how you get there
• Many things are simple, few things are easy
• Moral relativism — judge history from the lens of people in their circumstances doing their best not using current moral standards
• Change itself isn't painful, clinging to the past is
• The pursuit of meaningful life is the process of figuring out what is worth suffering for
• Cook vs chef, choose when to be which
• This too shall pass
• To change behavior, make things cool or uncool, culture is extremely powerful
• Things are rarely as risky or as rewarding as they seem — the primal brain overestimates consequences both positive and negative — go talk to the girl at the bar
• The cost of your good habits is in the present, the cost of your bad habits is in the future
• It’s not about you
• Let the hindsight of your future self be the foresight of your present self
• Be patient with your results, be impatient with your actions
• The best way to get ahead is to get started
• The ultimate shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts
• There are two types of forecasts: lucky and wrong