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October 16 - October 25, 2020
Books make for great friends, because the best thinkers of the last few thousand years tell you their nuggets of wisdom. [8]
You’re not going to get rich renting out your time. You must own equity—a piece of a business—to gain your financial freedom.
Specific knowledge is found by pursuing your genuine curiosity and passion rather than whatever is hot right now.
Reading is faster than listening. Doing is faster than watching.
No one can compete with you on being you.
Now, you have to come up to speed on a new profession within nine months, and it’s obsolete four years later.
Follow your intellectual curiosity more than whatever is “hot” right now.
You’re never going to get rich renting out your time.
Advice to a young engineer considering moving to San Francisco: “Do you want to leave your friends behind? Or be the one left behind?”
I would rather be a failed entrepreneur than someone who never tried. Because even a failed entrepreneur has the skill set to make it on their own. [14]
the reality is if you’re building something interesting, you will always have more people who will want to know you.
This is not to say it’s easy. It’s not easy. It’s actually really freaking hard. It is the hardest thing you will do.
Your real résumé is just a catalog of all your suffering. If I ask you to describe your real life to yourself, and you look back from your deathbed at the interesting things you’ve done, it’s all going to be around the sacrifices you made, the hard things you did.
So you generally want to lean into things with short-term pain, but long-term gain.
“I don’t want to read everything. I just want to read the 100 great books over and over again.”
Reading a book isn’t a race—the better the book, the more slowly it should be absorbed.
Put truth above social approval. [11]
Enlightenment is the space between your thoughts.”
The thing is, I’m addicted to the desiring. I’m addicted to the idea of this external thing bringing me some kind of happiness and joy, and this is completely delusional.
By the time people realize they have enough money, they’ve lost their time and their health. [8]
Confucius says you have two lives, and the second one begins when you realize you only have one.
Peace is happiness at rest, and happiness is peace in motion.
Meditation is intermittent fasting for the mind.
Impatience with actions, patience with results.
Anger is a precursor to violence.
Anyone around whom I can’t be fully honest, I don’t want to be around.
