The Almanack Of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

by Eric Jorgenson

At any given time, I’m either trying to pick up a good habit or discard a previous bad habit.

an internal state of revolution.

try

wimping

going to

Commit externally to enough people.

set a more reasonable goal

When you really want to change, you just change.

Impatience with actions, patience with results.

Anything you have to do, just get it done.

Make a list of the things you are doing procrastination with.

life is slipping away.

As Nivi said, inspiration is perishable. When you have inspiration, act on it right then and there. [78]

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“Set up systems, not goals.”

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most successful version of myself

There is no “later.”

Science, to me, is the study of truth and mathematics is the language of science and nature.

I’m not religious, but I’m spiritual.

science.

regurgitated

The returns in life are being out of the herd.

Social approval is inside the herd.

smartest and the most successful people I know started out as losers.

Grind and sweat, toil and bleed, face the abyss. It’s all part of becoming an overnight success.

Read everything you can.

Just read for its own sake.

skill of persuasion is important

Mathematics

It’s a foundational language of nature.

reverse engineering the language of nature,

statistics and probability

The hardest thing is not doing what you want—it’s knowing what you want.

“freedom to.”

internal freedom.

“freedom from.”

“freedom from,” internally and externally,

“Be exactly who you are.”

don’t measure my effectiveness at all.

Courage is not caring what other people think.

Value your time.

more important than your money.

Don’t spend your time making other people happy.

anger is a loss of control over the situation.

turn off my “monkey mind.”

children,

“real world.”

Puberty is the onset of desire—

the mind should be a servant and a tool, not a master.