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1 " If you can’t see yourself working with someone for life, don’t work with them for a day. "
― Eric Jorgenson , The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
2 " Earn with your mind, not your time. "
3 " We waste our time with short-term thinking and busywork. Warren Buffett spends a year deciding and a day acting. That act lasts decades. "
4 " Don’t take yourself so seriously. You’re just a monkey with a plan. "
5 " Foundations are key. It's much better to be at 9/10 or 10/10 on foundations than to try and get super deep into things. You do need to be deep in something because otherwise you'll be a mile wide and an inch deep and you won't get what you want out of life. You can only achieve mastery in one or two things. It's usually things you're obsessed about. "
6 " Grind and sweat, toil and bleed, face the abyss. It’s all part of becoming an overnight success. "
7 " The reality is life is a single-player game. You’re born alone. You’re going to die alone. All of your interpretations are alone. All your memories are alone. You’re gone in three generations, and nobody cares. Before you showed up, nobody cared. It’s all single player. "
8 " If you’re not willing to do a wholesale, 24/7, 100 percent swap with who that person is, then there is no point in being jealous. "
9 " Realize that in modern society, the downside risk is not that large. Even personal bankruptcy can wipe the debts clean in good ecosystems. I’m most familiar with Silicon Valley, but generally, people will forgive failures as long as you were honest and made a high-integrity effort. There’s not really that much to fear in terms of failure, and so people should take on a lot more accountability than they do. [78] "
10 " I have lowered my identity. I have lowered the chattering of my mind. I don’t care about things that don’t really matter. I don’t get involved in politics. I don’t hang around unhappy people. I really value my time on this earth. I read philosophy. I meditate. "
11 " The more desire I have for something to work out a certain way, the less likely I am to see the truth. "
12 " A happy person isn’t someone who’s happy all the time. It’s someone who effortlessly interprets events in such a way that they don’t lose their innate peace. "
13 " If you have nothing in your life, but you have at least one person that loves you unconditionally, it’ll do wonders for your self-esteem. "
14 " Escape competition through authenticity. "
15 " Tension is who you think you should be.Relaxation is who you are.” —Buddhist saying "
16 " Play iterated games. All the returns in life, whether in wealth, relationships, or knowledge, come from compound interest. "
17 " Specific knowledge is found much more by pursuing your innate talents, your genuine curiosity, and your passion. It’s not by going to school for whatever is the hottest job; it’s not by going into whatever field investors say is the hottest. "
18 " If I say I’m happy, that means I was sad at some point. If I say he’s attractive, then somebody else is unattractive. Every positive thought even has a seed of a negative thought within it and vice versa, which is why a lot of greatness in life comes out of suffering. "
19 " The closer you want to get to me, the better your values have to be. "
20 " The three big ones in life are wealth, health, and happiness. We pursue them in that order, but their importance is reverse. "
