Be a learning machine - The Game of life is the game of ever lasting learning
Pain first, fulfilment second - In matters concerning self improvement, personal discomfort is irrelevant.
Learning from the mistakes of others - You shouldn’t have to pee on an electric fence to know its a bad idea.
IQ points up for grabs - Going all in, being passionate and obsessive is worth 100 iq points - Bends in the wind, it doesn’t break
Maslow's mandate - “What one can be, one must be”. Becoming congruent with ones current self ones ideal self feels like a noble pursuit.
Overcoming Loss aversion - The crux of many pursuits, personal and professional -
“Nobody wins afraid of loosing” - Chris Stapleton
“Show me the man who’s afraid of appearing foolish and i’ll show you the man you can beat every time” - Lou Brock
“You want to win but you’re afraid of loosing”- John D Rockefeller
Good company - Continuously surround yourself with good company as continuously as you can.
Application - Knowledge without application is wasted.
Plastic - Everyone views life as concreate when it really is plastic. Same with our own brains.
Alloying - Combing things not normally found together often results in a non linear outcome. Copper + Tin = Bronze. Bronze is way harder than one would assume is the outcome from combining both alloys.
Optimal learning - Own experience + vicarious experience (alot of reading), both good examples and bad + a structure to hang to information on (multidis) so using the info becomes easy = non linear outcome.
Compounding - Personally and professionally, what looks like magic is often just compound interest. Dogged, incremental, constant progress sustained over a long period of time. P.D.Kaufman
Patience - Patience is a product of confidence and trust. P.D.Kaufman (terrible at this one)
Lifelong learning - Even if im wrong, I take the assumption im not going to get very far based on what I already know
Opportunity cost - All wise people think in terms of opportunity cost- Munger
Abnormal outcomes - Extreme people get extreme results
Volume training/mindset - Early in life I learned most outcomes come down to the volume of reps in the desired direction.
The examined life - The best armour of old age is a life well spent preceding it. Cicero
Leadership - Leaders dont wait for opportunities, they create them. Leaders mist stir energy in those around them. The best ones see the world from the top down and bottom up.
Inversion - How can I ruin my life? How can I not reach my goal? Avoid these things to achieve the outcome. C.T.Munger
Humility - Wisdom flows to the humble man like water into a depression. Maimonides.
Advantageous Divergence - Mimicking the herd invites regression to the mean. You cant do the same things as everyone else and expect different things. Extreme people get extreme results.
A prepared mind - Sweat more in practice, bleed less during battle. Chance favours the prepared mind. The world rewards synthesis across ideas.
Confidence - Up to a point, confidence is a self fulfilling prophecy
Strong opinions, loosely held - Everything is a rough approximation of reality. No one knows anything for sure.
Bamboo - Bends in the wind, it doesn’t break
Velocity > Speed - Most systems reward velocity over speed.
Percolation thresholds rule the world - Nature rewards persistence with suddenness.
Alignment - “If you can identify and align with how the world really works, the world will do most of the work for you” this is next to impossible without a multidisciplinary approach to life.