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If you have nothing in your life, but you have at least one person that loves you unconditionally, it’ll do wonders for your self-esteem. [8]
The most important skill for getting rich is becoming a perpetual learner. You have to know how to learn anything you want to learn.
Intentions don’t matter. Actions do. That’s why being ethical is hard.
The people who have the ability to fail in public under their own names actually gain a lot of power.
There’s not really that much to fear in terms of failure, and so people should take on a lot more accountability than they do. [78]
To be the winner, there must be a loser. I don’t fundamentally love status games.
Spend more time making the big decisions. There are basically three really big decisions you make in your early life: where you live, who you’re with, and what you do.
Figure out what you’re good at, and start helping other people with it. Give it away. Pay it forward. Karma works because people are consistent. On a long enough timescale, you will attract what you project.
If someone is talking a lot about how honest they are, they’re probably dishonest. That is just a little telltale indicator I’ve learned. When someone spends too much time talking about their own values or they’re talking themselves up, they’re covering for something. [4]
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.
I would combine radical honesty with an old rule Warren Buffett has, which is praise specifically, criticize generally.
Charisma is the ability to project confidence and love at the same time.
“If you want it done, then go. And if not, then send.”
Explain what you learned to someone else. Teaching forces learning.
It has been five thousand years, and we’re still arguing over whether meat is poisonous or plants are poisonous. Ditch the extremists and any food invented in the last few hundred years. [11]
highly recommend listening to the Tim Ferriss’s podcast with Wim Hof.
learned a very important lesson from this: most of our suffering comes from avoidance. Most of the suffering from a cold shower is the tip-toeing your way in. Once you’re in, you’re in. It’s not suffering. It’s just cold.
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves by Matt Ridley The most brilliant and enlightening book I’ve read in years. He has writt en four of my top twenty books. [11]
“You and Your Research” by Richard Hamming
