Save Planet, Get Rich #5 — Naval Ravikant
- Wisdom is understanding the long term consequences of your actions.
- If it is not making you happier, or healthier, or calmer, or having better relationships, or wealthier, then what good is it? It’s useless. You can safely discard it.
- It is very easy for self-improvement to degenerate into self-conflict, and self-conflict to self-misery.
- Somebody out there has to be smart and happy…why not me?
- Human beings are built to return to the baseline of where they started.
- Maximize the level of happiness available to you.
- If you are not living up to your self-image, that’s a leash you put around your own neck.
- Most of us are carrying very obsolete self-images that no longer correspond to the actual environment that we’re in.
- Work is no way to live a life. Especially if you are a first world citizen with options.
- The only opinion of me that I care for is my own, and the only time frame is now.
- You get to give love, you don’t have the right to expect love.
- Build your own garden, tend your own lawn, clean your own mind, tend to your own household and make sure your own household is a paragon before you go out and try to fix the world.
- One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.
- If you want to save the world, save your little corner of the world.
- For something to hurt you, you have to let it. If you’re letting it, that means there is a part of you that believes it.
- If you are completely honest, they can’t touch you.
- The world rewards people who are the best in the world at something.
- You escape competition through authenticity.