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Time is the ultimate filter. You don't have to obtain an opinion when you hear a narrative. Just wait for a while. You'll see the hype burst eventually.

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Nature modifies all and changes all.

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The most important thing is to know and be oneself.

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"Learn the theory from those who best know the practice." - Montaigne

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"The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it." - Henry David Thoreau

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"If your opinions on one subject can be predicted from your opinions on another, you may be in the grip of an ideology. When you truly think for yourself your conclusions will not be predictable." -- Kevin Kelly

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"Everything we hear is an Opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a Perspective, not the truth."

— Marcus Aurelius

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"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage – to move in the opposite direction."
-E.F. Schumacher

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"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. " -- John Lennon

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Things I learn today:

If you have no or low expectations, you're more likely to beat procrastination and act swiftly; then you'll better prepared to catch serendipity than doing nothing with your ambitious goals.

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"Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true"
-- Demosthenes

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Note to self:

If work feels like play, I would never have to retire.
So the task is to make work as enjoyable as possible.

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“The idea that the future is unpredictable is undermined every day by the ease with which the past is explained.” ― Daniel Kahneman

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“Your economic security does not lie in your job; it lies in your own power to produce – to think, to learn, to create, to adapt. That’s true financial independence. It’s not having wealth; it’s having the power to produce wealth.” – Stephen Covey

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How to invest without reading 100 books? https://t.co/sewR4zR1dk

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To leverage the magic of compound effect, you have to stay the course. That means you must avoid the risk of ruin.

So always be prepared for the worst. Then the actual outcomes would be guaranteed to be better than you've imagined.

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“The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised." -- George F. Will