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“Happiness is there when you remove the sense of something missing in your life.”
― Eric Jorgenson, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

“Happiness is the state when nothing is missing. When nothing is missing, your mind shuts down and stops running into the past or future to regret something or to plan something.”
― Eric Jorgenson, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

“Happiness is what’s there when you remove the sense that something is missing in your life.”
― Eric Jorgenson, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

“I have lowered my identity. I have lowered the chattering of my mind. I don’t care about things that don’t really matter. I don’t get involved in politics. I don’t hang around unhappy people. I really value my time on this earth. I read philosophy. I meditate.”
― Eric Jorgenson, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

“We spend so much time and effort trying to change the external world, other people, and our own bodies—all while accepting ourselves the way we were programmed in our youths.”
― Eric Jorgenson, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

“Peace is happiness at rest, and happiness is peace in motion.”
― Eric Jorgenson, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

“The world just reflects your own feelings back at you.”
― Eric Jorgenson, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

“You’re going to die one day, and none of this is going to matter. So enjoy yourself. Do something positive. Project some love. Make someone happy. Laugh a little bit. Appreciate the moment. And do your work.”
― Eric Jorgenson, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

“If you make the easy choices right now, your overall life will be a lot harder.”
― Eric Jorgenson, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

“the anger and emotions are a huge, completely unnecessary consequence.”
― Eric Jorgenson, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

“if you’re not spending your time doing what you want, and you’re not earning, and you’re not learning—what the heck are you doing?”
― Eric Jorgenson, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

“always spent money on books. I never viewed that as an expense. That’s an investment to me.”
― Eric Jorgenson, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

“after more than a century of electric technology, we have extended our central nervous system itself in a global embrace, abolishing both space and time as far as our planet is concerned”6 —MARSHALL McLUHAN, 1964”
― James Dale Davidson, The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age

“Information Age will be the age of upward mobility. It will afford far more equal opportunity for the billions of humans in parts of the world that never shared fully in the prosperity of industrial society. The brightest, most successful and ambitious of these will emerge as truly Sovereign Individuals.”
― James Dale Davidson, The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age

“in the future, one of the milestones by which you measure your financial success will be not just now many zeroes you can add to your net worth, but whether you can structure your affairs in a way that enables you to realize full individual autonomy and independence.”
― James Dale Davidson, The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age

“A job you can learn in a single day is not skilled work.”
― James Dale Davidson, The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age

“Each moment, whatsoever you are doing, do it totally. Simple things—taking a bath; take it totally, forget the whole world; sitting, sit; walking, walk,”
― Osho, Fear: Understanding and Accepting the Insecurities of Life

“Meditation is nothing but a way to learn how to do a thing totally—once you have learned, make your whole life a meditation; forget all about meditations, let the life be the only law, let the life be the only meditation. And then time disappears.”
― Osho, Fear: Understanding and Accepting the Insecurities of Life

“Reality never comes as a problem; it is only the ideas about reality that create the problem. So the first thing to be understood is that if you can dissolve the psychological pain, no problem is left. Then you start living in the moment.”
― Osho, Fear: Understanding and Accepting the Insecurities of Life

“Our future economy, society and politics will be shaped by the attempt to overcome death.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

“if you condemn a natural phenomenon it becomes poisonous, it destroys you, it becomes destructive and suicidal. If you transform it, it becomes divine. But transformation is needed.”
― Osho, Emotions: Freedom from Anger, Jealousy & Fear

“Sadness is passive anger and anger is active sadness. Because sadness comes easy, anger seems to be difficult. It is because you are too much in tune with the passive. It is difficult for a sad person to be angry. If you can make a sad person angry, his sadness will disappear immediately. It will be very difficult for an angry person to be sad. If you can make him sad, his anger will disappear immediately.”
― Osho, Emotions: Freedom from Anger, Jealousy & Fear

“Sadness also has a being. Allow it, embrace it, sit with it, hold hands with it. Be friendly. Be in love with it. Sadness is beautiful! Nothing is wrong with it.”
― Osho, Emotions: Freedom from Anger, Jealousy & Fear

“There are many people who are smart, are well educated, and have memorized large amounts of information and numerous facts but who lack a broad understanding of the consequences of their decisions.”
― Hasard Lee, The Art of Clear Thinking: A Stealth Fighter Pilot's Timeless Rules for Making Tough Decisions

“To produce dynamic and flexible thinkers, we needed to start by building a robust mental framework that would be comprised of general concepts and reinforced with lessons learned through experience. We then gradually added more detailed information, but only as it supported the overall framework.”
― Hasard Lee, The Art of Clear Thinking: A Stealth Fighter Pilot's Timeless Rules for Making Tough Decisions

“Building a community is a complex business, though. It involves careful planning and consideration, but also the freedom to empower your community members to accomplish things that you never dreamed of.”
― Jono Bacon, The Art of Community: Building the New Age of Participation

“belonging is our goal. It is that nine-letter word that you should write out in large letters and stick on your office wall. It is that word that should be at the forefront of your inspiration”
― Jono Bacon, The Art of Community: Building the New Age of Participation

“Charlie says, “Hard work is an essential element in tracking down and perfecting a strategy, or in executing it.”
― Charles T. Munger, Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger

“Develop into a lifelong self-learner through voracious reading; cultivate curiosity and strive to become a little wiser every day. More important than the will to win is the will to prepare. Develop fluency in mental models from the major academic disciplines. If you want to get smart, the question you have to keep asking is “Why, why, why?” Intellectual humility Acknowledging what you don’t know is the dawning of wisdom. Stay within a well-defined circle of competence. Identify and reconcile disconfirming evidence. Resist the craving for false precision, false certainties, etc. Above all, never fool yourself, and remember that you are the easiest person to fool. Analytic rigor Use of the scientific method and effective checklists minimizes errors and omissions. Determine value apart from price, progress apart from activity, wealth apart from size. It is better to remember the obvious than to grasp the esoteric. Be a business analyst, not a market, macroeconomic, or security analyst. Consider the totality of risk and effect; look always at potential second-order and higher-level impacts. Think forward and backward: Invert, always invert.”
― Charles T. Munger, Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger

“Allocation Proper allocation of capital is an investor’s number one job. Remember that the highest and best use is always measured by the next best use (opportunity cost). Good ideas are rare—when the odds are greatly in your favor, bet (allocate) heavily. Don’t fall in love with an investment—be situation-dependent and opportunity-driven. Patience Resist the natural human bias to act. “Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world” (Einstein); never interrupt it unnecessarily. Avoid unnecessary transactional taxes and frictional costs; never take action for its own sake. Be alert for the arrival of luck. Enjoy the process along with the proceeds, because the process is where you live. Decisiveness When proper circumstances present themselves, act with decisiveness and conviction. Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful. Opportunity doesn’t come often, so seize it when it does. Opportunity meeting the prepared mind—that’s the game.”
― Charles T. Munger, Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger