Naval (@navalism) • Hey
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- "Time spent has nothing to do with job done."
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- Like everything in life, if you are willing to make the short-term sacrifice, you’ll have the long-term benefit. 'Easy choices, hard life. Hard choices, easy life.'
- "The more you know, the less you diversify."
- "Guard your time. Forget the money."
- Happy International Women's Day !
- "The source of wisdom is pain."
- You have to pick something big to work on, because it's hard to commit your life to something small
- 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’re doing.
- "You can have the mind or you can have the moment."
- The less scheduled you are, the more creative you’re going to be.
- Little changes compounded for a long time create extraordinary results.
- Escape competition through authenticity.
- "If it entertains you now but will bore you someday, it’s a distraction. Keep looking."
- You have to pick something big to work on, because it's hard to commit your life to something small.
- "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. But don’t measure—your patience will run out if you count."
- "Charisma is the ability to project confidence and love at the same time."
- "Like everything in life, if you are willing to make the short-term sacrifice, you’ll have the long-term benefit. 'Easy choices, hard life. Hard choices, easy life.'”
- "I’m not going to be the most successful person on the planet, nor do I want to be. I just want to be the most successful version of myself while working the least hard possible."
- No one in the world is going to beat you at being you.
- You get rewarded for unique knowledge, not for effort. Effort is required to create unique knowledge
- "When competing against the incumbent, better to focus on what they won't do rather than what they can't do."
- "Number of books completed is a vanity metric.
As you know more, you leave more books unfinished.
Focus on new concepts with predictive power."
- "You should never trust anyone predicting the market with words. Either they have a position, or should."
- "First, you know it.
Then, you understand it.
Then, you can explain it.
Then, you can feel it.
Finally, you are it."
- "Your profile photo is how you see yourself and your background image is what you care about."
- "It is the mark of a charlatan to explain a simple concept in a complex way."
- "Some of the most creative and productive people I have ever met work in multi-week bursts and then have weeks where they just idle with little done. It’s the nature of the human animal."
- "Always pay it forward. And don't keep count."
- "If you wanted to be rich in the 1800s you did it with Labour. In the 1900s with Capital. Now you do it with code."
- "I don’t believe in hierarchical relationships. I don’t want to be above anybody, and I don’t want to be below anybody. If I can’t treat someone like a peer and if they can’t treat me like peer, I just don’t want to interact with them."
- "You lead by being willing to walk alone."
- "If you can dream it, you can do it"
- "Your goal in life is to find out the people who need you the most, to find out the business that needs you the most, to find the project and the art that needs you the most. There is something out there just for you."
- "Decisions:
• If you can’t decide, the answer is no.
• If two equally difficult paths, choose the one more painful in the short term (pain avoidance is creating an illusion of equality).
• Choose the path that leaves you more equanimous in the long term."
- Knowing how little you matter is very important for your own mental health and happiness.
- Read books, avoid news.
- The goal of media is to make every problem, your problem.
- Imagine how effective you would be if you weren’t anxious all the time.
- Your profile photo is how you see yourself and your background image is what you care about.
- Life is compound interest.
- The problem with genius is that you have to tolerate madness.
- Don’t worry about remembering. Just try to understand important points. Write, ruminate, pace, do what it takes to understand. Don’t memorize.
- The more neatly you fit into society, the less free you actually are.
- Either have children or become a saint, because eventually, you have to find something you love more than you love yourself.
- The more seriously you take yourself, the unhappier you’re going to be.
- Self-image is the prison. Other people are the guards.
- All self-help boils down to "choose long-term over short-term.
- You will get rich by giving society what it wants but does not yet know how to get. At scale.
- If you can’t be happy with a coffee, you won’t be happy with a yacht.
- The worst way to build a relationship is to try to build a relationship.