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Reading science, math, and philosophy one hour per day will likely put you at the upper echelon of human success within seven years.
When it comes to reading, make sure your foundation is very, very high quality.
To think clearly, understand the basics. If you’re memorizing advanced concepts without being able to re-derive them as needed, you’re lost.
You know that song you can’t get out of your head? All thoughts work that way. Careful what you read.
The three big ones in life are wealth, health, and happiness. We pursue them in that order, but their importance is reverse.
Don’t take yourself so seriously. You’re just a monkey with a plan.
There are no external forces affecting your emotions—as much as it may feel that way.
The problem with getting good at a game, especially one with big rewards, is you continue playing it long after you should have outgrown it. Survival and replication drive put us on the work treadmill. Hedonic adaptation keeps us there. The trick is knowing when to jump off and play instead.
Perhaps one reason why yoga and meditation are hard to sustain is they have no extrinsic value. Purely single-player games.
In any situation in life, you always have three choices: you can change it, you can accept it, or you can leave it.
I’m not going to be the most successful person on the planet, nor do I want to be. I just want to be the most successful version of myself while working the least hard possible.
If there’s something you want to do later, do it now. There is no “later.”
“If you read what everybody else is reading, you’re going to think what everyone else is thinking”?
The hardest thing is not doing what you want—it’s knowing what you want.
Advice to my younger self: “Be exactly who you are.” Holding back means staying in bad relationships and bad jobs for years instead of minutes.
Anger is its own punishment. An angry person trying to push your head below water is drowning at the same time.
Before you can lie to another, you must first lie to yourself.
How do you define wisdom? Understanding the long-term consequences of your actions. [11]
The truth is, I don’t read for self-improvement. I read out of curiosity and interest. The best book is the one you’ll devour.
Read enough, and you become a connoisseur. Then you naturally gravitate more toward theory, concepts, nonfiction.
Happiness = Health + Wealth + Good Relationships Health = Exercise + Diet + Sleep Exercise = High Intensity Resistance Training + Sports + Rest Diet = Natural Foods + Intermittent Fasting + Plants Sleep = No alarms + 8–9 hours + Circadian rhythms Wealth = Income + Wealth * (Return on Investment) Income = Accountability + Leverage + Specific Knowledge Accountability = Personal Branding + Personal Platform + Taking Risk? Leverage = Capital + People + Intellectual Property Specific Knowledge = Knowing how to do something society cannot yet easily train other people to do Return on Investment =
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Mathematics is the language of nature.
