1). people don’t want to start over and it’s a nature of later in life. that you just under the time. So it’s very painful to go back down and look for a new path, but that maybe the best thing to do. Try the ability to start over that nobody else does.

2). Willing to be a fool, and kind of have the beginner’s mind and go back to the beginning to start over. And if you’re not doing that, you’re just getting older.

3). a moment when you connect two things together that you had not connected them together before, and it fits nicely and solidly, and it kind of helps form a steel framework of understanding in your mind, that you can then hang other ideas off of.

4). I would rather read the best hundred books over and over again until I absorbed them rather than read all the books. i read to satisfy my genuine intellectual curiosity.

5). Because really when people are putting off photos on twitter, instagram, of look at my pile of books that i’m reading, it’s a show off thing, it’s a signaling thing.

6). In modern society, we get too much information too quickly, and so our attention spans are very low, so you get twitter, instagram, facebook, you are just used to being bombarded with information.

7). you displaying the best aspects of your life, and some sort of a glass case, it’s an unrealistic version of your life that you cultivate and you curate.

8). You want to be rich and anonymous, not poor and famous.

9). So if you want to operate at peak performance, you have to learn how to tame your mind, just like you have to learn how to tame your body.

10). what you do, who you do it with, how you do it way more important than how hard you work, right? outputs are nonlinear.

11). we are going to go back to being small group of creative bands of individuals setting out to do missions. And when those missions are done, we collect our money, we get rated, and then we rest and reassess. Until we are ready for the next spring.

12). there is no such thing as general intelligence, every intelligence is contextual within the context of the environment that it since if devolve an environment around it.

13). with my family, i am a communist, with my close friends, i am a socialist, at my state level politics, i am a democrats, higher level, i am a republican, and at the federal level, on a libetarian.

14). the larger the group of people you have mass together who have different interests, the less trust there is, the more cheating there is. the better the incentives have to be aligned, the better the system has to work, the more you go towards capitalism.