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the real wealth is created by starting your own companies or even by investing.
Coding, writing books, recording podcasts, tweeting, YouTubing—these kinds of things are permissionless.
For important decisions, discard memory and identity, and focus on the problem.
Charisma is the ability to project confidence and love at the same time. It’s almost always possible to be honest and positive. [71]
The more you know, the less you diversify.
If you can’t decide, the answer is no.
If you’re evenly split on a difficult decision, take the path more painful in the short term.
So you generally want to lean into things with short-term pain, but long-term gain.
Read a lot—just read. [2]
Explain what you learned to someone else. Teaching forces learning.
calm mind, a fit body, and a house full of love. These things cannot be bought. They must be earned.
Today, I believe happiness is really a default state. Happiness is there when you remove the sense of something missing in your life.
Real happiness only comes as a side-effect of peace.
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.
Like everything in life, if you are willing to make the short-term sacrifice, you’ll have the long-term benefit.
Time spent undistracted and alone, in self-examination, journaling, meditation, resolves the unresolved and takes us from mentally fat to fit.
Hiking is walking meditation. Journaling is writing meditation. Praying is gratitude meditation. Showering is accidental meditation.
To have peace of mind, you have to have peace of body first.
You should always be internally ready for a complete change.
clever brain can choose its upcoming environment.
“To find a worthy mate, be worthy of a worthy mate.” [4]
Everyone starts out innocent. Everyone is corrupted. Wisdom is the discarding of vices and the return to virtue, by way of knowledge.
