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January 24 - February 4, 2022
“Escape competition through authenticity.” Basically, when you’re competing with people, it’s because you’re copying them. It’s because you’re trying to do the same thing. But every human is different. Don’t copy. [78]
If you go to the library and there’s a book you cannot understand, you have to dig down and say, “What is the foundation required for me to learn this?” Foundations are super important. [74]
Knowing how to be persuasive when speaking is far more important than being an expert digital marketer or click optimizer. 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.
The less you want something, the less you’re thinking about it, the less you’re obsessing over it, the more you’re going to do it in a natural way. The more you’re going to do it for yourself. You’re going to do it in a way you’re good at, and you’re going to stick with it. The people around you will see the quality of your work is higher. [1]
Learn to sell, learn to build. If you can do both, you will be unstoppable.
Value your time at an hourly rate, and ruthlessly spend to save time at that rate. You will never be worth more than you think you’re worth.
Another thing that helps: I value freedom above everything else. All kinds of freedom: freedom to do what I want, freedom from things I don’t want to do, freedom from my own emotions or things that may disturb my peace. For me, freedom is my number one value.
think you have to put yourself in the position with the specific knowledge, with accountability, with leverage, with the authentic skill set you have, to be the best in the world at what you do.
What making money will do is solve your money problems. It will remove a set of things that could get in the way of being happy, but it is not going to make you happy.
You don’t get rich by spending your time to save money. You get rich by saving your time to make money.
The number one thing clouding us from being able to see reality is we have preconceived notions of the way it should be.
We think of ourselves as fixed and the world as malleable, but it’s really we who are malleable and the world is largely fixed. Can practicing meditation
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.
Historically, I would say the legendary Buddha or Krishnamurti, whose stuff I like reading, they are successful in the sense that they step out of the game entirely. Winning or losing does not matter to them.
Peace is happiness at rest, and happiness is peace in motion.
When working, surround yourself with people more successful than you.
Tell your friends you’re a happy person. Then, you’ll be forced to conform to it. You’ll have a consistency bias. You have to live up to it. Your friends will expect you to be a happy person. [5]
No exceptions—all screen activities linked to less happiness, all non-screen activities linked to more happiness. [11]
Nothing like a health problem to turn up the contrast dial for the rest of life.
I highly recommend listening to the Tim Ferriss’s podcast with Wim Hof. He is a walking miracle.
It takes a long time for markets to adopt products. It takes time for people to get comfortable working with each other. It takes time for great products to emerge as you polish away, polish away, polish away. Impatience with actions, patience with results. As Nivi said, inspiration is perishable. When you have inspiration, act on it right then and there. [78]
If there’s something you want to do later, do it now. There is no “later.”
I think most of them have read tons of treatises in economics but haven’t read any Adam Smith.
Macro economic book
Skin in the Game by Nassim Taleb
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher by Richard Feynman
The Book of Life by Jiddu Krishnamurti
All greatness comes from suffering.
