![]() ![]() The only way to actually get peace on the inside is by giving up the idea of having problems.” ![]() “In today’s day and age, many people think you get peace by resolving all your external problems, but there are unlimited external problems.You can convert peace to happiness anytime you want.” “To me, peace is happiness at rest and happiness is peace in motion.You have society in your phone, society in your pocket, society in your ears… It’s socializing you and programming everyone. There’s too much society everywhere you go. The way to survive in modern society is to be an ascetic, it is to retreat from society. And if you fall for it, if you get addicted. “You have social statisticians, scientists, and researchers in lab coats, literally the best minds of our generation figuring out how to addict you to the news.I don’t care whether you’re a top Wall Street banker, if somebody has to tell you when to be at work, what to wear and how to behave, you’re not a free person. Find the thing that looks like work to others, but feels like play to you, and then go all in on it.You’ll have to ruthlessly decline meetings if you want to do anything of importance in this world.Protect your time like it’s all you have.“Sit down, close your eyes, get in a comfortable position, and whatever happens, happens.Naval practices the “art of doing nothing” meditation, here’s how you do it:.There are MANY problems with Universal Basic Income.“I do believe that automation, over a long enough period of time, will replace every non-creative job”.Society will always create new jobs, but it’s impossible to predict what those jobs will be.We need a culture of continuous adult education.The information revolution, by making it easier to communicate, connect, and cooperate, is allowing us to go back to working for ourselves.Knowledge workers function like athletes – they train, sprint, then rest and reassess.We live in an age of infinite leverage, and because of that, the impacts of good decision-making are much higher than they used to be.If you want to operate at peak performance, you need a calm mind.The universe is rigged in such a way that if you just want one thing, and you focus on that, you’ll get it, but everything else you gotta let go.” So just don’t focus on more than one desire to time. “Desire is suffering… every desire you have is an axis where you will suffer. ![]() Here’s the good news – all 3 of those things can be taught.Everybody wants to be wealthy, everybody wants to be happy, and everybody wants to be fit.Read to satisfy your intellectual curiosity. When you combine things you’re not supposed to combine, people get interested.Where It Happens with Sahil Bloom and Greg Isenberg.This Week in Startups with Jason Calacanis.The Unraveling Podcast with Jocko Willink and Darryl Cooper.The Reason Interview with Nick Gillespie.Spearhead with Naval Ravikant and Babak Nivi.Everyday Espionage Podcast with Andrew Bustamante.Christopher Lockhead's Follow Your Different.Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting. ![]()
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