philosophy, meaning & human nature

The world is a museum of passion projects. Everything around us is someone's lifework.

the race isn’t always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that’s the way to bet.

اگر مصرف بیشتر اخبار واقعاً مزیت بزرگی برای تصمیم‌گیری و موفقیت مالی ایجاد می‌کرد، کسانی که تمام روز با اخبار زندگی می‌کنن: خبرنگارها، باید ثروتمندترین و موفق‌ترین آدم‌ها می بودن. اما مزیت واقعی معمولاً از فهم عمیق، تمرکز و اقدام میاد، نه از دونستن هر اتفاقی که امروز افتاده. خبر برای ذهن همون چیزیه که شکر برای بدنه: خوشمزه، راحت مصرف‌شونده و در نهایت آسیب‌زا. رابطه بین اهمیت یه اتفاق و توجه رسانه‌ای به اون اغلب برعکسه. هرچی یه موضوع بیشتر سر و صدا داشته باشه، ممکنه اهمیت واقعی اون کمتر باشه. به جای اینکه اجازه بدی رسانه‌ها تعیین کنند به چه چیزی فکر کنی، خودت انتخاب کن چه چیزی ارزش فکر کردن داره. دانستن بیشتر همیشه به معنای فهمیدن بیشتر نیست. اطلاعاتی که همون روز اتفاقی منتشر می‌شه، معمولاً سطحی و ناقصه. چیزی که ما واقعاً نیاز داریم، زمینه و درک عمیقه، چیزی که بیشتر در کتاب‌ها پیدا میشه. درسهایی که از کتاب Stop Reading The News from Rolf Dobelli یاد گرفتم.

“Failure is so much more interesting than success. And it always saddens me that school doesn't teach that. At school th…

“be humble is often terrible advice. if ultra successful people that I know were more humble, they would disappear into the ground.” If you are doing something in this world that you are proud of and you don’t put forth what you are good at and don’t own it, then other people who seek & value that ability or skill will never find and connect with you and overlook you because of your decisions and choices. people who know what they are great at and not being a jerk or arrogant about it, but have the ability to surface what they are great at and bring that to the world and other people connecting with it and finding value in it, that’s how we get the best of everything in life.

@drgurner Fair, but they fire from the same place and feel the same in the moment. So the real question is: how do you tell which one is talking?

The measure of an intelligent person is the ability to change his mind.

“Your job, throughout your entire life, is to disappoint as many people as it takes to avoid disappointing yourself.” - G. Do…

The day a blind man sees. The first thing he throws away is the stick that has helped him all his life https://t.co/hEqARyy…

“A man is what he thinks about all day.”—Emerson

Curiosity. Desire to know. The urge to ask questions. And then follow up questions. The more I look. The less I see this. Rare.

You don't know how big a fish you are till you try a big pond.

@tferriss I ask 3 questions: - What do you think about most of the time? - What do you do that others overlook? - What ideas and activities helped you the most?

Excellence exists in the depths of knowledge and nuances. That's what separates the greats from everyone else.

I've never been happier in my life and I am living a dream. Still, when I reflect on my life, I can attribute this happine…

Today is a gift.

@amasad @galligator Unbelievable achievement! Also the other side of the story tells you something more: obesity is America’s biggest problem by a large margin and no one is helping people to avoid it.

Passion comes from the Latin passio which means: to suffer. What you’re willing to endure reveals what you truly love.

@garrytan @ycombinator A world without scarcity is a world without desire.

“people who dwell in the past get stuck in the past” couldn’t agree more. also never been a fan of therapy myself because it makes you focus on the past and what’s wrong with your past, instead of focusing on what’s right with you and your possibilities, potential and future.

Do not waste time on things you cannot change or influence.

@RoxhallHQ @rauchg if you can’t explain yourself in simple words and simple language, i’m sorry to say, you can’t think clearly. don’t believe me? ask @paulg

anything human will not change: the desire for status the need to feel connected the tendency to remember stories the inability to handle uncertainty the urge to react to scarcity the pull toward instant gratification the trust in what feels familiar the wiring to trust confidence over accuracy the fear of missing out the habit of comparing ourselves to others the default to follow the crowd the resistance to admitting we’re wrong the drive to protect what we already have​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ the reflex to judge before understanding the thirst to belong to something bigger the craving for validation from others the drift toward what’s forbidden the impulse to fill silence with noise

@hnshah anything human will not change: the desire for status the need to feel connected the tendency to remember stor…

@hnshah fear. fear of a closing opportunity window. fear of losing your job. fear of losing your status.

@patrickc the strange part of the human condition is that you probably trust it even more now.

@SIGMAPROFESSOR these are the core aspects of the "social" part of being a human. what are you talking about?! those who don't have these desires, will not live fully.

در باب #تیز_اندیشیدن نکته ۵ تیغ هنلون: چیزی رو که می‌شه به حماقت یا غفلت نسبت داد رو به بدخواهی و عوضی بودن نسبت ندین. این…

چه جالب، نمیدونستم این ابزار فکری اسم داره. به جرأت میتونم بگم نصف آرامش روانیم و عصبانی نشدن و حتی توهین نگرفتن در ارتباط با دیگران رو از طریق این ابزار فکری به دست آوردم. اگه کسی از نگاه من باهام عادلانه رفتار نکنه، پیش خودم یکم میخندم میگم این بی زبون قضاوتش در همین حده، مطمئنم تلاششو کرده و پیش خودش عادلانه بوده رفتارش. یا اینکه میگم این بی زبون شدت خود-محوری زیادی داره نسبت به میانگین جامعه، دیگه بیش از این نباید انتظار داشت ازش‌، ژنتیکه دست خودش نیست. یا حتی اگه کسی عقاید سیاسی دیگه ای داره، میگم خوب توی یه محیطی بوده که این عقیده غالب بوده، تقصیر خودش نیست.

@tailopez the brain could easily be renamed to worrynet.

@MoneyQuotesX sadly almost everyone i know: parents, colleagues, wife, friends. therefore envy/jealousy is human. or i’m unlucky 😂

@readswithravi in his defense: wisdom is slow by definition

@signulll 50% is too much. we are habitual beings. thinking takes too much energy. your body adapts in a way to consume less energy and therefore stop thinking completely.

@aakashgupta i wouldn’t say it’s a cheat code. it’s more of a painful realization that almost all people around you are jealous and envy you for your life improvements. jealousy/envy is a core human condition. you need to actively fight it. but there are some rare individuals with less of it.

turn envy into admiration.

@QuoteSunTzu turn envy into admiration.

@PhilosophyDose_ i like naval’s definition more: intelligence is the ability to get what you want.

being human is best actualized if you are serving a cause higher than yourself or loving a person other than yourself. -victor frankl

people want what they can’t have. people want what other people want. people want things only a select few have access to.

be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

our inputs, our judgements, our desires, our actions, our reactions, and our feelings are up to us. but our outcomes are outside of our control.

Epictetus: Remember it’s not the things that upset us, it’s our opinion about things.

Marcus Aurelius: Remember you always have the power to have no opinion.

honesty without tact and care is cruelty. how many calories steve burned to not look cruel?! 😅

@Naturalphilosy “great men … great sadness” his philosophy is great for wasting the great gift of life in misery instead of taking control of your thoughts and staying cheerful and constructive.

“economic development specializes functions, differentiates abilities, and makes men unequally valuable to their group.” From Founders: #342 The Lessons of History (Will & Ariel Durant)

“economic development specializes functions, differentiates abilities, and makes men unequally valuable to their group. Only the man who is below average in economic ability desires equality. Those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom, and in the end, superior ability has its way” From Founders: #342 The Lessons of History (Will & Ariel Durant)

@BitcoinArchive it’s funny how he keeps making predictions even after almost all his predictions were wrong for this year. people’s love for certainty allows such nonsense behavior.

Deprival Super Reaction Tendency. This is the pain of losing something is much higher than the pleasure of gaining the same thing. Losing $10 hurts more than gaining $10 feels good. And if you “almost” get something you want and it's jerked away from you at the last moment, you react as if you've owned it for years and lost it.

Munger maxim: the power of incentives. it is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon him not understanding it. if someone's behavior doesn't make sense to you, ask yourself what the incentives are.

when giving feedback, use socrates’ triple-filter test: is it true? is it good? is it useful? • do i know this information to be true? • will this benefit me or the other person? • can that person take any practical action from this feedback?

epictetus: when you find yourself offended, understand that you are complicit in taking offense.

people working in the HR of companies i worked for … don’t seem to like the “H” in HR also i know doctors that became doctors for status & money and actually can’t stand other humans… same goes for many working in the airports security checks… to their defense: they didn’t know their job will be so repetitive and boring… people seem to not be able to think before deciding what they wanna do for the rest of their lives. most of us go through life with a short-term lens, making decisions based on non-important factors in the long term.

Napoleon: to have lived without glory, without leaving a trace of one's existence is to have not lived at all.

men are moved by two lovers only, fear and self-interest. - napoleon

you need to follow your natural drift. who are you? what’s important to you? build and operate based on your natural instincts.

intelligent men in groups are, as a rule, stupid.

humans seek status by design. it doesn’t mean we have a faulty design. it means we have individual value, and we require our value to be seen, recognized and rewarded.

that’s why you created so much wealth? to ONLY impress yourself? i don’t think so. success is social. you are asking people to do a biological impossibility. we are wired to care about other people’s opinions of ourselves. that’s how we feel good and thrive. we seek status by design, which means we have value and want our value to be recognized by others in our group. but sure, if someone is not in your “group”, you don’t care about their opinions and their status game in the first place.

so much of what we do is in the service of our identity. it hardly needs pointing out that a lot of successful advertising works by making a subconscious deal for status. status is our need to signal our value to others and to ourselves. the money we spend actualizing our desired identity is surely worth it. why else would we do it? when we spend money on our identity, we feel better about ourselves.

noted: the best moments usually occur when a person's body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.

status is a constant preoccupation of the subconscious mind. -ws

*success is social* wellness gurus insist we mustn't care about other people's opinions. it is a foolish instruction. it’s also preposterous: it demands the biologically impossible. humans are completely preoccupied with what others think about us. our sense of self-worth is almost entirely defined by how we evaluate ourselves relative to others. success is social. our accomplishments only happen in the context of our life in the superorganism. to feel of value, we must have our worth affirmed by those with whom we co-construct our shared reality. it is not enough that I believe my achievements to be a success, but rather they have to be recognised as successful by the group. -ws, a story is a deal

everything we choose, everything we wear, everything we eat or use, every belief we verbalize, every behaviour we endorse, every politician we support, adds to the story of who we are. #storytelling

@IcyCortex IQ often works against your nature. You need to dial down on it to survive if necessary: example: knowing something is causing you problems. you decide to intentionally ignore it for your own good and shut down the “reason”. get in harmony with the nature or you’ll be wiped out

the quality of my thinking largely depends on the mental models i know

@elonmusk @zerohedge The laws of nature are superior to the laws of man.

simply telling someone a story in which they can see something of themselves can be enough to create a powerfully rewarding moment of identification, and that identification can lead to persuasion. #storytelling

- when we identify with a person, we don't just like them, we make them a part of who we are. - when we identify with a political party, we don't just vote for them, we make them a part of who we are. - when we identify with an employer, we don't just work for them, we make them a part of who we are. - when we identify with a brand, we don't just use their products, we make them a part of who we are.

humans are social animals. we need to feel we are part of something, anything, with some group of people, contributing to a shared story-world. it helps to get a feeling of connection. it’s hard to feel a connection, with anything. but it does stop us from trying. it’s the same for packed sports stadiums.

if we want to be of influence, then we should tell stories of people-like-us, and connect.

even modern humans choose to end their lives rather than endure the destruction of their identity. according to one survey, 53% of americans would choose ‘instant death’ over the reputation of a child molester. in 1996, us navy admiral jeremy boorda shot himself in the chest after being accused by reporters of wearing military decorations he technically wasn't entitled to, his suicide note expressing concern he'd damaged the reputation of the navy. when a grate collapsed at a south korean concert in 2014, the official responsible for safety threw himself off a ten-storey building. in 2023, the british head teacher ruth perry hanged herself following an inspection that downgraded her school from outstanding to inadequate. whenever anyone willingly straps on a suicide vest or flies a plane into a building, they're choosing their identity in the story-world over their life.

just as physical resources - food, drink, oxygen - make us feel good in the survival realm, so do the social resources of connection and status in the story realm.

one major study spanning 123 countries found wellbeing consistently depended on the degree to which people felt ‘respected by others’. status attainment and its loss were 'the strongest predictor of long-term positive and negative feelings’.

we don't measure our status against some stable external pole, but our perception of how other members of our groups are doing, and our own recent position. no matter how rich, famous or successful we are, if those around us surge ahead, or we lose by just a modest amount, it hurts.

if we want to motivate others, appeals to identity in the story-world are massively more effective than appeals to the wallet.

- what does the story say about me? - do we identify with the story? - will it help us find & fuse with people-like-us? - does it offer us connection? - does it allow us to feel like better versions of ourselves? - does it offer us status? these are the questions that matter

mediocrity is invisible until passion shows up and exposes it.

academy award-winning screenwriter aaron sorkin: “somebody's got to want something, something's got to be standing in their way of getting it”. without obstacles and goals there is no story, just an aimless list of events. #storytelling

compelling stories are fuelled by information about obstacles and goals. when a human brain detects this pattern, it tends to become interested. #storytelling

'1984' apple ad was successful because it told a story its audience identified with. identification is the persuader's most powerful tool. #storytelling when we detect similarity, we automatically feel a little closer to them, and a little more willing to connect. we're programmed to seek out and attract those whose story-worlds seem compatible. to do this, we all emit dense clouds of social information that give clues as to the nature of our inner world, just as we read the information given out by others. similarity signals are used by the by the brain as rough and easy clues that indicate our internal model of the world might be compatible with someone else's. and so we’re drawn to each other. we connect. we spend all of our lives in a kind of detect-and-connect mode, on a restless mission to seek people-like-us with whon can successfully cooperate. when we discover fellow people like us, who seem to share our inner story world, we feel a kind of magnetic joy. they make us feel safe, seen, valued and validated, and reaffirm to us that the efforts of our lives are worthwhile. we long to be accepted by them, and to spend as much time in their presence as we can. people-like-us provide us with existential comfort. they reassure us that our distorted, semi-fictional story of world is actually objectively real and true. we feel warmth and trust towards them. we feel calmer and happier in their company. sometimes we even fall in love. we see the world through the minds of other people. those we identify with and have connected to become part of us, possessing a corner of our minds, or more. when our brain categorises someone as people-like-us - when we identify with them - something strange and magical takes place. our minds begin to fuse and collaborate on a story about the external world. as we merge with the collective, we start to become a different person, experiencing a different story-world.

when we ‘identify’ with a person or group, and then connect with them, it's not that we just start doing things in their company. something far more profound takes place. our identities fuse. our perception of reality, and our idea of who we should be within it, merges with theirs. we become more likeminded. we become persuadable, and persuaded. -ws

it’s our powerful and often subconscious need for connection and status that drives us to partially construct our identity out of products that tell a story of who we are; this story of self connects us to likeminded people, with whom we collaborate in a shared reality, seeking status from one another. fusing with story-worlds in this way can leave us profoundly altered. it can change: who we are, what we want, what we believe and how we behave. for tens of thousands of years, humans have influenced each other using the logic and language of story. we become persuadable when we're told stories that show us how to achieve connection and status. -ws

remain driven by a mission to: put something back into the pool of human experience

some people want to rule the world. some people want to own the world. some people want to fu*k the world. some people want to upgrade the world. join the last category. it benefits all.

in war, men are nothing. one man is everything. -nb

@MartinGTobias intelligence is the ability to recognize patterns, reason about them, draw conclusions, make decisions, plan actions, generate solutions and act effectively in pursuit of goals.

remain driven by a mission to: put something back into the pool of human experience

avoid intense ideology. it turns your brain into cabbage.

@StartupArchive_ fairness doesn’t exist in nature. it is made up by humans just like others human rights money nationality religion it will only waste your time and diminish your good mood if you don’t accept it

fairness doesn’t exist in nature. it is made up by humans just like others human rights money nationality religion it will only waste your time and diminish your good mood if you don’t accept it

trust = transparency / self-interest -mc

unclear communication is a symptom of unclear thinking but it’s hard to get your thinking clean to weed out all the noise to get to the essence to delete to focus to see

@signulll trade-off rules the world you can't have it all don't try to

the safest way to try to get what you want is to try and deserve what you want.

@theJayAlto well I don’t think you can avoid status games. by doing all the things you mentioned, you are just creating a different game that is less crowded and you can claim it’s a better game than some other games that people are involved with. this book makes the case for it.

Well, after reading this book, I started to see that you (or me or anyone else) are the same in pursuing status games. Our games are different. And we all think our game is better than others. Wealth versus Power versus Intellect versus… you find other people’s status games (in this case top corporate rankings) lesser than whatever status game you are playing (in your case “intellectual innovation” or whatever name we like to call it 😅). Wouldn’t you agree?

i feel healthy it’s an overlooked feeling for the young and free of illness

i feel healthy it’s an overlooked feeling for the young and unsick

most of us didn’t make the clothes we’re wearing and we didn’t cook or grow the food that we eat and we’re speaking the language that was developed by other people we are constantly taking and the ability to put something back into the pool of human experience is extremely neat sj

the thought of mortality to know my arc will fall makes me want to blaze while i’m in the sky

@signulll every other girl in Iran has a nose job once plastic surgery becomes trending, you will not even recognize your cousins anymore (my case) fucking horrible people start to think they look ugly till they get one because their family and friends think so

@signulll this is the law of trade-off. you can’t have it all. don’t try to. the man who chases two rabbits catches none.

.@naval on success and happiness:

@ShaneAParrish @sama @elonmusk Extreme success rarely comes from a balanced personality. Role models are better from a distance. Pro tip: don’t follow what they say, master the best of what they have already figured out ;)

Big ideas are usually simple ideas. Compounding: Small gains, repeated, become massive. Improve a little daily. Supply & demand: Price moves where balance breaks. Find and take advantage of the imbalance. Scarcity: Rare feels valuable. Accumulate rare qualities, skills, assets. Tit for tat: Play fair, but don’t be a fool. Trial and error: To succeed, do, fail, learn, repeat. Try. Try. Try. Opportunity cost: Choosing one thing means losing another. Know what you are losing when choosing. Incentives: People do/don't what you reward/punish. Feedback loops: Wins create more wins, losses create more losses. Leverage: A little effort can move a lot. Find it. Use it. Diminishing returns: More isn’t always better. Know when to stop. The 80/20 rule: A few inputs drive most results. Don't lose your 20. Parkinson’s law: Work expands to fill the time. Set short deadlines. First principles: Break problems down to the basics. Reason up from there. Marginal gains: Tiny improvements stack up. (similar to Compounding) Asymmetric bets: Small risk, huge upside. Make many of these bets. Sunk cost fallacy: Don’t throw good after bad. Cut your losses, money, time, energy. Second-order effects: Actions have ripples you can’t always predict. Try hard to predict them anyway. Inversion: Think about what to avoid, not just what to do. Focus is removing noise and saying no. Prefer a not to-do list over a to-do list. Lindy effect: The longer it’s lasted, the longer it will last. Read and learn old ideas. Power laws: A few things matter way more than the rest. Identify the few, ignore the many. Optionality: Keep choices open; value flexibility. Position yourself to have multiple options rather than one. Opportunity window: Great opportunities have an expiry date. Act before it closes. Confirmation bias: You’ll find proof for whatever you already believe. Look for disproof. Self-fulfilling prophecy: Belief shapes reality. Curate your beliefs to support the reality you want to create. Trade-offs: You can’t have it all. Don't try to. The man who chases two rabbits catches none. Velocity over speed: Direction matters more than pace. Worry more about where you are headed, not how fast you are moving. --- What other big ideas you know that happen to be simple? Happy weekend!

Big ideas are usually simple ideas. Velocity over speed: Direction matters more than pace. Worry more about where you are headed, not how fast you are moving. Compounding: Small gains, repeated, become massive. Improve a little daily. Supply & demand: Price moves where balance breaks. Find and take advantage of the imbalance. Scarcity: Rare feels valuable. Accumulate rare qualities, skills, assets. Tit for tat: Play fair, but don’t be a fool. Trial and error: To succeed, do, fail, learn, repeat. Try. Try. Try. Opportunity cost: Choosing one thing means losing another. Know what you are losing when choosing. Incentives: People do/don't what you reward/punish. Feedback loops: Wins create more wins, losses create more losses. Leverage: A little effort can move a lot. Find it. Use it. Diminishing returns: More isn’t always better. Know when to stop. The 80/20 rule: A few inputs drive most results. Don't lose your 20. Parkinson’s law: Work expands to fill the time. Set short deadlines. First principles: Break problems down to the basics. Reason up from there. Marginal gains: Tiny improvements stack up. (similar to Compounding) Asymmetric bets: Small risk, huge upside. Make many of these bets. Sunk cost fallacy: Don’t throw good after bad. Cut your losses, money, time, energy. Second-order effects: Actions have ripples you can’t always predict. Try hard to predict them anyway. Inversion: Think about what to avoid, not just what to do. Focus is removing noise and saying no. Prefer a not to-do list over a to-do list. Lindy effect: The longer it’s lasted, the longer it will last. Read and learn old ideas. Power laws: A few things matter way more than the rest. Identify the few, ignore the many. Optionality: Keep choices open; value flexibility. Position yourself to have multiple options rather than one. Opportunity window: Great opportunities have an expiry date. Act before it closes. Confirmation bias: You’ll find proof for whatever you already believe. Look for disproof. Self-fulfilling prophecy: Belief shapes reality. Curate your beliefs to support the reality you want to create. Trade-offs: You can’t have it all. Don't try to. The man who chases two rabbits catches none. --- What other big ideas you know that happen to be simple? Happy weekend!

Opportunities and relationships appear when you stop desperately seeking them. This is pure game theory and psychology.

Contrary to popular belief, most people like most decisions made for them. Because: Ambiguity is stressful. Agency is effort. Certainty is comforting. Freedom is overrated, especially freedom in how to do things. It can be overwhelming, uncomfortable, or even paralyzing.

The least doubtful communicators are often the most oblivious.

Merely measuring something has an uncanny tendency to improve it. Corollary: be careful what you measure.

Thereʼs lots of ways to be, as a person. And some people express their deep appreciation in different ways. But one of the ways that I believe people express their appreciation to the rest of humanity is to make something wonderful and put it out there. And you never meet the people. You never shake their hands. You never hear their story or tell yours. But somehow, in the act of making something with a great deal of care and love, somethingʼs transmitted there. And itʼs a way of expressing to the rest of our species our deep appreciation. So we need to be true to who we are and remember whatʼs really important to us. —sj, 2007

My important ideas get close to zero attention on social media compared to less important ones. I conclude three things: 1- Most people don’t have the judgment to tell what’s important and what’s not 2- Social media algos promote what an average person would pay attention to 3- If you want to see important ideas more often you need to proactively find the people who have them and set notifications on for all their posts and not rely on social media algos

I went to a water park last weekend. I saw long lines of people wanting to try something with easy or moderate difficulty. They had to stay in line for 15-20 minutes or more. But all the difficult slides were empty! There I thought: courage is indeed in short supply

Everything significant started insignificantly.

What is the only thing you need? @saylor gives the ultimate answer: My reason to live is to upgrade the world. I aim for a major version upgrade, but I may end up with a minor or even a patch version. That’s fine by me.

@kunalb11 Leadership is influence. The more your influence with people, the more of a leader you are.

It might seem like it would be a disadvantage to be mistaken about one's abilities, but empirically it isn't. Up to a point, confidence is a self-fullfilling prophecy.

Everything rises and falls on leadership.

The worst thing in life? when you start believing your own lies and it kills you as a consequence!

What I don't like about therapy is that you pay someone to mostly help you spend hours focusing on what's wrong with you. But what you focus on becomes your reality. I would rather pay someone help me spend hours on what is right with me and focus on that instead.

It is very difficult to upgrade the world. But its a worthy pursuit.

It's very difficult to upgrade the world. But its a worthy pursuit.

It's very difficult to upgrade the world. But it's a worthy pursuit.

"You are as good as how nice you are to people you don't have to be nice to." - @nntaleb

Today’s essay tells a tragic tale of murder, and explores how the storytelling abilities of our own brains mislead us all the t…

In the absence of desire, you may reach peace, but you also may get lazy and stop doing things.

@IcyCortex Everything rises and falls on leadership. How a nation feels, also depends heavily on its leaders. Feeling humiliated or disdained? Maybe your leader feels humiliated or disdained deep inside? Feeling like you don’t belong? (my case) maybe your leader feels that too.

بازی زندگی، بازی قرارداد هایه که با خودمان میبندیم. قراردادهای مشابه هم: خوشحال نخواهم بود تا فلان نشود. نمیشینم تا بهمان نشود. این قراردادها یا مارا میشکنند یا هم تا مرز شکستن میبرند. ولی چه میشه کرد. زندگی مجموعه قراردادهای یک طرفست. اگر قراردادی نبندی، سوخت حرکت کردن نداری. اگر قرار داد ببندی، ریسک شکستن میکنی. زندگی خوب شاید از تعادل بندهای قراردادهایی بیاید که با خودمان میبندیم.

@WoeToChorazin These are well written books. They argue their case well. Just because we have opposing arguments doesn’t mean we should dismiss and ignore someone’s work. Nuanced thinking comes from the ability to hold and entertain opposing ideas in our head at the same time.

Cyrus jan I have trouble with 0-1 statements that miss nuance and evoke emotions. But social media algorithms love them. Accuracy leaves the room in the absence of nuance. I’m referring to these statements “It makes no real difference” = 0 “It changes a student’s life” = 1 Btw, my main objective in engaging with social media posts like this one is to improve my thinking, not to attack/defend an opinion. But our back and forth could look like that regardless 🙂

The two most effective ways to get attention online are anger and humor because they require the least amount of mental b…

Play The Long Game "Play long-term games with long-term people." Short-term people think in days & months. Long-term peo…

@philobreeze That would be the definition of authenticity. But one could say authenticity somehow can lead to happiness… but then again happiness is largely dependent on meaningful relationships, autonomy and competence… maybe authenticity can help in these areas…

“If more money wouldn't change how you spend your time, you're already rich.” — @jackbutcher

@CyrusYari You need to read this book Cyrus. “Prestige” or “Status” is a game hardwired in us. For good reason. Even you are playing a status game with this tweet 🙂. You are saying my status game (with my rules) are better than other status games! It’s very interesting book!

Everything significant, starts insignificantly.

@goodreads “Wisdom is anticipating the consequences of your choices.” Shane Parrish, The Great Mental Models, Volume 4: Economics & Art

@goodreads “Wisdom is anticipating the consequences of your choices.” Shane Parrish, The Great Mental Models, Volume 4:…

Wisdom is anticipating the consequences of your choices. - Shane Parrish, The Great Mental Models Vol 4: Economics & Art

I haven’t. I should. I know Naval recommended it. But I had the ultimate conversation starter question on lunch table with colleagues about this topic: would you rather be a King anywhere before 200 years ago? Would you switch places if it was possible? And if anyone said yes, i would immediately reminded them about the toilet paper situation 😂

I think these sort of gratitudes are the ultimate happiness shortcut. It was back then. It still is now. let me list some more: gratitude for not being born anytime before 200 years ago with average life expectancy of 30-40 (basically gratitude for clean water availability to masses, invention of refrigerator, antibiotics, vaccines, and discovery of germs and improved sanitation: namely toilet paper and soap…) gratitude for having endless entertainment and advanced healthcare that no king of the past could ever imagine gratitude for connecting and sharing your thoughts with like minded strangers on the other part of the world in seconds…

The world is not fair; neither is life. Fairness isn’t a physical phenomenon; it is a construct of the human mind, akin to other shared illusions like human rights, nationality, or money. The sooner you accept this reality, the quicker you can move past it and adapt your life accordingly.

“The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.” — Voltaire

The main takeaways for me were more on how to know when is the best time to decide: evaluate the irreversibility and consequentiality of a decision to determine if you should delay the decision more to have more info… I also liked the positioning part. To best position yourself is to act in a way to have more options in the future. So you don’t have to do something only because you have no other choice.

@Wise1Philosophy I would define a good man as the opposite of a devil. I define devil as the one who does more harm than good. Then the good man would be the one who does more good than harm.

Life is like poker, not chess! Life decisions fall more in the probabilistic domain (involve hidden information, luck and randomness like poker) and not deterministic domain (complete knowledge of the issue and perfect cause and effect relationship like chess) 🧵 We need to evaluate decisions based on the process and not outcome. Because sometimes you can get lucky and get a good outcome with a bad decision like passing a red light or driving home drunk without accident. You can also get unlucky with good decisions and get a bad outcome like firing a bad employee and not being able to find replacement for 1 year. There are exactly 2 things that determine how our lives turn out: the quality of our decisions and luck. What makes a decision great is not that it has a great outcome. A great decision is the result of a good process, and that process must include an attempt to accurately represent our own state of knowledge. I immensely enjoyed this book and I still can remember its lessons 2 years after reading it.

There's no such thing as the ideal training. There's no perfect business strategy, no optimal stock portfolio, no one right job. They're all myths. The truth is that you begin with one set-up and then constantly adjust it. The more complicated the world becomes, the less important your starting point is. So don't invest all your resources into the perfect set-up—at work or in your personal life. Instead, practice the art of correction by revising the things that aren't quite working—swiftly and without feeling guilty. Second time reading this modern philosophy book!

If you don't recognize the flaws in your own thinking, sooner or later those flaws will come to haunt you. Scientific thinking can greatly improve how we perceive, analyze, and act in this uncertain, chaotic, and complex world 🧵 I love to improve my thinking. Because the better I think, the wiser I will be. The wiser I am, the better my decisions will be. And the better my decisions, the better the results I get. And the better the results, ultimately the wealthier, influential, and happier I become. This book is about scientific thinking, mental models, and strategies for making the right analysis and inferences in the face of challenging situations—like facing uncertainty, moonshot projects, or big failures—in order to make better decisions and ultimately increasing our odds of success. Strategies like developing redundancies in our systems to avoid the single point of failure in face of uncertainty; reasoning from first-principle by conducting root cause analysis when there is no known solution; Moonshot thinking and conducting thought experiments; Reframing questions before we dive into problem-solving; try to prove ourselves wrong when coming up with ideas; avoiding complacency after accomplishing an objective; failing intelligently, and conducting backcasting and pre and postmortem analysis; and much more… Happy reading! 📙

@Wise1Philosophy Being liked or accepted are human needs, associated with connection. But I prefer respect and admiration to like and acceptance. When people defer to us, offer respect, admiration or praise, or allow us to influence them in some way, that's what makes me feel at ease.

gratitude for having eyes, arms and legs gratitude for not being born anytime before 200 years ago with average life expectancy of 30-40 (basically gratitude for clean water availability to masses, invention of refrigerator, antibiotics, vaccines, and discovery of germs and improved sanitation: namely toilet paper and soap…) gratitude for having endless entertainment and advanced healthcare that no king of the past could ever imagine gratitude for connecting and sharing your thoughts with like minded strangers on the other part of the world in seconds …

@Jesii_ca_M The ability to add value to society and those around him.

@ReddCinema Lack of self-confidence and independence or a strong sense of entitlement

@GadzhiIman Everyone plays some sort of status game and we all think our game is better than others be it a virtue game, dominance game, or success game by not playing someone else’s game, you are implying their game is inferior than the game you prefer to play status play is all we do

The "question loop" is the most powerful psychological trigger in human history. When we see an unanswered question, our bra…

@stats_feed Not giving chores to kids -> result in low self-confidence individual with low independence Not punishing kids (I don’t mean physically) when they do something wrong -> result in entitled individuals who may lack accountability and struggle to understand consequences

به نظرم همه قضیه نیست. ژن و ویژگی های شخصیتی ذاتی که آدم باهاش متولد میشه و همینطور به خاطر محیط خاصی که توش بزرگ شده توسعه داده میشه هم نقش مهمی داره. مثل حس کنجکاوی زیاد، سرعت یادگیری بالاتر، قابلیت تحمل استرس بالا، حس رقابتی زیاد، یا اتش برای دستاورد و موفقیت به خاطر حس نداشتن مداوم در بچگی به خاطر بی پولی خانواده، یا دردهای ناخواسته دیگری که شخصیت فرد رو برای رشد و موفقیت شکل میده…

"Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants." — Epictetus

@engineers_feed Confirmation bias, ego or conflict of interest are strong forces of nature and busy at work day and night. Trying to change someone’s mind once they formed an opinion about something is a futile exercise in an overwhelming majority of cases.

@GadzhiIman Everyone plays some sort of status game and we all think our game is better than others be it a virtue gam…

@48LawsofPowerr Say less than necessary Re-create yourself

@RobertGreene I loved his book “The Wisdom of Life”. Especially this quote from the book: "The cheapest sort of pride i…

@engineers_feed Confirmation bias, ego or conflict of interest are strong forces of nature and busy at work day and nigh…

Taking pride in one’s nationality is like taking pride in randomness. You had nothing to do with your nationality. It happened by luck. Taking pride in luck doesn’t make sense. Instead take pride in something that you had influenced and it was your doing. That’s the point he is trying to make.

@pmarca Respect for one’s parents

@pmarca “good thoughts, good words, good deeds”

@pmarca First, do no harm.

@pmarca Evil harms more people than it helps.

@pmarca Do no harm Help others Be kind

@IcyCortex @jordanbpeterson true. I just wanted to point out to him: ambitions, whether driven by power, competence/ability, or even altruism, are all symbols that we use to measure status.

@authenticife @jordanbpeterson True. That’s surely one solid way to achieve status. I just wanted to point out that all ambitions, whether driven by power, competence/ability, or even altruism, are all symbols that we use to measure status as humans unconsciously.

@DearS_o_n I agree if you add reading to the list. I don’t believe in praying, but if by praying you mostly express gratitude, it’s a useful thing to do for your happiness.

@jordanbpeterson Risk is also the price of not knowing what you’re doing.

@RobertGreene @WhitneyCummings I would say train your gut before you trust it. Our gut feeling could be more wrong than right. Because we have limited experiences and knowledge.

@Altimor Humans love binary thinking. It’s simple. It’s satisfying. Its everywhere. Nuanced thinking on the other hand is rare. It requires thinking critically about your own thinking. In your case it’s easy to see how narrow you see the world and make simplistic judgment calls.

I loved his book “The Wisdom of Life”. Especially this quote from the book: "The cheapest sort of pride is national pride; for if a man is proud of his own nation, it argues that he has no qualities of his own of which he can be proud; otherwise he would not have recourse to those which he shares with so many millions of his fellowmen. The man who is endowed with important personal qualities will be only too ready to see clearly in what respects his own nation falls short, since their failings will be constantly before his eyes. But every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud adopts, as a last resource, pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and glad to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail,"

Once inside any group, we're rarely content to flop about on its lower rungs. We're driven to rise within it. When we succeed, and receive approval and acclaim from our community, we experience happiness. 🧵 We feel as if our lives have meaning and purpose and that we're thriving. These emotions, too, are no accident. In the millions of years in which our brains were being designed by evolution, the greater our status relative to the people around us, the better able we'd be to maximise our potential for survival and reproduction. Back in the Stone Age, increased status meant access to better mates, more food and greater safety for ourselves and our offspring. It still does today. So we're driven to seek connection and rank: to be accepted into groups and win status within them. This is the game of human life. No matter where you might travel you'll find it: humans forming groups and playing for status. In the developed world, we play political games; religious games; corporate games; sports games; cult games; legal games; fashion games; hobby games; computer games; charity games; social media games; racial, gender and nationalist games. The variety feels infinite. Within these groups, we strive for individual status—acclaim from our co-players. But our groups also compete with rival groups in status contests. When our games win status, we do too. When they lose, so do we. These games form our identity. We become the games we play. We play for status, if only subtly, with every social interaction, every contribution we make to work, love or family life and every internet post. We play with how we dress, how we speak and what we believe. We play with our lives, with the story we tell of our past and our dreams and plans for the future. Life isn't only driven by status. We're also motivated by other grand drives. We want power. We want sex. We want wealth. We want to change society for the better. But all these wants are best satisfied by playing the status game. If you want to rule the world, save the world, buy the world or f*ck the world, the best thing to pursue is status. Our brains continually, and in countless ways, measure where we sit versus other people. They automatically layer them and the groups they belong to into hierarchies. Most of these processes are subconscious, and hidden from us. The brain feeds us distorted, simplistic and self-serving tales about why others are above us or are beneath. In this way, complex truths become reduced to cartoonish moral struggles between good and evil. We're all vulnerable to believing such narratives. They form our experience of reality. They make us feel better about ourselves; they motivate us to strive to improve our rank. But they're delusional. When asked why we do the things we do, we rarely say, It's because of status. I really love it.' To admit to being motivated by improving our rank is to risk making others think less of us, which loses us rank. Even admitting it to ourselves can make us feel reduced. So our awareness of our desire for status eats itself. Our awareness of our desire for status eats itself but we readily recognise it in rivals and even use it as a method of insult—which, ironically, is status play: an attempt to downgrade others and thereby raise ourselves up. Status isn't about being liked or accepted: these are separate needs, associated with connection. When people defer to us, offer respect, admiration or praise, or allow us to influence them in some way, that's status. One study of more than sixty thousand people across 123 countries found people's wellbeing 'consistently depended on the degree to which people felt respected by others'. Attainment of status or its loss was 'the strongest predictor of long-term positive and negative feelings'. The higher we rise, the more likely we are to live, love and procreate. It's the essence of human thriving. It's the status game. Workers 'at the bottom of the office hierarchy have, at ages forty to sixty-four, 4 times the risk of death of the administrators at the top of the hierarchy'. This remained true with every step you took up or down the game. The lower you dropped, the worse your health and the earlier your death. 'The group second from the top has higher mortality than those above them in the ranking.' feeling deprived of status is a major source of anxiety and depression. perceiving oneself as having low rank compared to others is consistently linked to higher depressive symptoms. A psychologically healthy brain excels at making its owner feel heroic. It does this by reordering our experiences, remixing our memories and rationalising our behavior to make us believe we're more virtuous, more correct in our beliefs and have more hopeful futures in store than others. We are inclined to adopt self-serving beliefs about ourselves, and comforting beliefs about the world. We're used to thinking of money and power as principal motivating forces of life. But they're we use to measure status. Studies suggest that, unlike status, the desire for power over others is not fundamental in humans. Unlike status, it doesn't strongly predict wellbeing. Status is the original form of currency, and the one that matters most. Studies show a majority of employees would accept a higher-status job title over a pay rise. I just gave you a taste of this brilliant work. It’s a great book you should buy and read it.

@jordanbpeterson You clearly haven’t read this book Jordan. Everything we do has to do with status. Whether we like it or not.

What doesn’t seem right here? And whose fault is this? p.s. humans crave coherency and consistency even when it doesn’t make sense! @ShaneAParrish In case you couldn’t figure out the answer:

You have a chance at becoming a clear thinker only when you develop the art of thinking critically about your own thinking.

Our own decisions shape our destiny. The choices we make, even small, everyday decisions, will take us to the life we lo…

The most dangerous addiction is the approval of people who don't matter.

This Ancient strategy has grasped the Blood, Sweat, and Tears of millions across centuries: Also known as Game Theory…

@ShaneAParrish @MatthewDicks Nothing can hack a human brain like a good story.

Paradoxically there is almost nothing new in the news. News is always the same. A scandal here, a bomb there, an actor here, a central bank chairman there, athletes breaking records, companies holding press conferences, industries growing, others shrinking, the stock market dancing up and down, some group of people somewhere are outraged, and the occasional plane falls from the sky…

@EricJorgenson It’s really hard to listen to multiple sides of media if you already formed an opinion about who is right and who is wrong. Confirmation bias is a strong force of nature…

@short_whisper زدی به🎯 خیلی کم به این نکته فک میکنم. ولی احساس مسئولیت زیادی هم تاثیر داره در راحتی خیال. بعضیا فک میکنن فرشته نجات هستن و باید همه خانواده رو نجات بدن که “این غلطه”

I think about confirmation bias all the time; it’s the easiest judgement error to fall for. I constantly ask: am I ignoring some facts because they’re not to my liking or they oppose my views/beliefs/hopes? I do think I’m getting better at it; or is it outcome bias if I do?🤔🫠

Humiliation can make people do the unimaginable. - Murderers often cite humiliation as their number one feeling just before they kill someone. - Nazi party rose after Germany was forced to accept a humiliating deal at the end of World War I: The Treaty of Versailles Let me give you some context why that deal was humiliating for Germans. The Guilt Clause: Germany was forced to accept full responsibility for the war. This war guilt clause was deeply resented by Germans as they felt it unfairly blamed them entirely for a conflict involving multiple countries. The Reparations: Germany was required to pay enormous reparations to the Allies, particularly to France and Belgium. These payments severely strained the German economy, leading to inflation and contributing to widespread poverty and resentment. Territorial Losses: Germany lost about 13% of its territory and all of its overseas colonies. This not only reduced Germany’s geographical influence but also its economic resources, as these areas were often rich in natural resources. Military Restrictions: The treaty placed strict limits on Germany’s military. The German army was capped at 100,000 soldiers, and they were prohibited from having tanks, an air force, and submarines. The Rhineland, a key industrial region, was demilitarized, which made Germany feel vulnerable to its neighbors. Psychological Impact: For many Germans, the treaty represented a profound national humiliation. The loss of territory, military restrictions, and blame for the war contributed to a sense of betrayal, which was amplified by the fact that the treaty was signed without German representatives being allowed to negotiate its terms. These conditions fostered widespread resentment and economic hardship in Germany, setting the stage for political unrest and the rise of nationalist movements, including the eventual ascent of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. ————- In case of US elections, I think it’s not crazy to think that one source of the incredible energy that keeps Donald Trump moving for months of unstoppable campaigning can be attributed to this event! 😂 He used this negative energy as a fuel to take them down in the face of a massive media army against him! I think it’s safe to say Obama messed with the wrong guy at this event 😉 now look at his party going down in terms of supporters even in blue states… Of course what I said here is an over simplification. Lesson: never underestimate the power of humiliation even in the context of comedy and roasting!

Simplifying the reasoning for the result of a very complex process/phenomenon such as an election to one single cause is a judgment error. But I know people love to hear one simple cause for complex matters… here I tried to put a list of reasons why trump will win. It’s not complete in any sense, and I don’t claim it’s accurate. It’s a sensible try. But please refrain from simplifying complex matters to a single cause.

People prefer company of those who make them feel superior, as this could boost their self-esteem and sense of importance. In contrast, intellectual prowess can oftentimes create distance in relationships, as it might unintentionally make others feel inadequate or defensive!

Avoid the unhappy and the unlucky.

It’s rare for intelligence and drive to intersect in one person. When they do, look out.

@IcyCortex All man’s miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone.

There was a time in American history when this was the goal of a “Man Cave” for middle-class men. Living like the aristoc…

“Failure is irrelevant unless it is catastrophic.” — @elonmusk

Analogies are communication shortcuts. They act as compressed stories that we use to effectively persuade, innovate and make decisions. - Better analogies win arguments and persuade juries and judges in courts. - Right analogies can spark countless innovations as Edison believed. - More analogies make decision-making easier and more effective. Effective analogies essentially meet 5 criteria: 1. Use the familiar to explain something less familiar. 2. Highlight similarities and obscure differences. 3. Identify useful abstractions. 4. Tell a coherent story. 5. Resonate emotionally. "Business is war" is of the most common analogies that almost unconsciously we use, and understand and it is deeply ingrained in the way we think of business. When we accept "business is war", consequently we then accept there must be allies and enemies, strategies and tactics, attacks and defends, loosing and winning in business as well! even though some of these concepts may not make sense at all in the context of the business. but we don't care, because we find this analogy useful; because it helps us better understand and do business. @jdpollack is a presidential speech writer and strategist. I really enjoyed this book and learned a lot about the great powers of analogy in our lives. Happy reading! 📙 #bookreview #innovation #communication #persuasion #decisionmaking #analogy #bookrecommendation @jdpollack You can find my notes in the booksense app. Link is in the bio.

You have no grounds for supposing that any one has lived long, because he has wrinkles or grey hairs: such a man has not lived long, but has only been long alive. We do not receive a short life, but we make it a short one, and: we are not poor in days, but wasteful of them. We do not have a very short time assigned to us, but we lose a great deal of it: life is long enough to carry out the most important projects: we have an ample portion, if we do but arrange the whole of it aright: but when it all runs to waste through luxury and carelessness when it is not devoted to any good purpose, then at the last we are forced to feel that it is all over, although we never noticed how it glided away. Look back in your memory and see how often you have been consistent in your projects, how many days passed as you intended them to do when you were at your own disposal, how much work you have done in so long a time, how many people have without your knowledge stolen parts of your life from you, how much you have lost, how large a part has been taken up by useless grief, foolish gladness, greedy desire, or polite conversation; how little of yourself is left to you? … Words of wisdom from Seneca! All of it makes sense even thousands of years later. Timeless wisdom. Happy reading! 📙 Find my notes in the booksense app. Link in bio. #books #philosophy #seneca #reading #life #ontheshortnessoflife #wisdom

Your genes, your postcode, your intelligence, your willpower, and your environmental opportunities, believe it or not, are major factors in material success in your life. Fundamentally there is almost nothing you can do about any of it. Yes, if you have willpower and intelligence but a bad postcode and no opportunities, you may be able to change your postcode for a better quality of life and more opportunities. But you may not. Because of 100 other reasons (family obligations, not good enough skill set, lack of self-confidence...). I'm convinced that intellectual tools are more important than money, more important than relationships, and more important than even intelligence. Having a box of mental tools to turn to is essential because these tools make it possible to see the world more objectively and act sensibly in the long run. For instance: knowing how to separate our necessities from our desires and our expectations or how to focus on our input instead of output or how to realize if we are in a social arms race and get out of it or just the fact that focus can't be divided or how to avoid problems instead of fixing problems or how feeling like a victim and self-pity will ruin your life or why your life isn't a photo album or how to shift from external to internal validation or why you wouldn't be happier in the Caribbean or why you need a secretary of state or why you didn't earn your successes @dobelli the compounding of subtle enlightenments makes a huge difference in life. It's just timeless wisdom. Happy reading! 📙 #bookreview #bookrecommendation #goodlife #wisdom #intellectualtools #mentaltoolbox #clearthinking @dobelli Find my notes in the booksense app. Link in bio.

The greatest aid to judgment is starting from a good position. When you are well positioned, there are many paths to victory. If you are poorly positioned, there may be only one. What happens in ordinary moments determines your future. Each moment puts you in a better or worse position to handle the future. It's that positioning that eventually makes life easier or harder. Ordinary moments determine your position and your position determines your options. It doesn't matter what position you find yourself in right now. What matters is whether you improve your position today. The best decision-makers are the ones who think clearly. To think clearly, you need a framework, a good mental model. I never came across a simple yet effective decision-making model till I read this book. - What are the human defaults that make us try to win the moment at the expense of the decade? - When its time to decide? - Which decisions we should make ASAP and which ones ALAP? - Which one is more important: knowing how to get what we want? or knowing what's worth wanting? @ShaneAParrish is one of my favorite authors who previously published "The Great Mental Models" book series which I found immensely valuable and insightful to read and reread. Happy reading! 📙 @ShaneAParrish Find my notes in the booksense app:

We should stop trying to predict uncertain events and spend more time understanding timeless behavior. Because the most impactful events and innovations are usually the ones that no one could predict and see coming. If we could see that coming, by definition, those events/innovations wouldn't be that impactful, because everyone would try to prepare for it and their risk would diminish dramatically. So a safe bet is always trying to invest in things that you know will most likely not change in 10, 20, or 100 years from now. Predicting what the world will look like fifty years from now is impossible. But predicting that people will still respond to greed, fear, opportunity, exploitation, risk, uncertainty, tribal affiliations, and social persuasion in the same way is a bet I'd take. Jeff Bezos in a recent interview with Lex Fridman mentioned something similar: I'm often asked what's going to change in the next ten years. "I almost never get the question: What's not going to change in the next ten years?" he said. "And I submit to you that that second question is actually the more important of the two." Things that never change are important because you can put so much confidence into knowing how they'll shape the future. I always look for timeless wisdom, and this book is another great source that I think will be relevant many decades, if not centuries from today. @morganhousel is an outstanding thinker and one of my favorite authors who previously published The Psychology Of Money (another great book) in 2020. Happy reading! 📙 @morganhousel Find my notes in the booksense app:

Implicit-egotism effect: We are generally drawn to the things and people that most resemble us. The more time passes, the more I realize how true this is. Mentioned in the book “$100M Offers” by @AlexHormozi

"A taste of freedom can make you unemployable." @naval

Longevity is one of the best indicators of truth. Pay attention to things that don't change as much as you pay attentio…

"If it hurts to hear it, look for the truth in it. If it comforts to hear it, look for the lie in it." @naval

"The measure of wisdom is how calm you are when facing any given situation." @naval

"A rational person can find peace by cultivating indifference to things outside of their control." @naval

if you spend 40+ hours a week doing something, it’s inevitably going to mold your thought processes and personality an…

we’re all very malleable! it’s much easier to place yourself into circumstances that change you in cool ways than it is t…

@NavalismHQ @naval Agreed. Money buys freedom (autonomy) which is the biggest factor in happiness (65-70% based on some studies). Autonomy means being able to do whatever you want, wherever you want, with whoever you want for as long as you want.

"The three big decisions - what you do, where you live, and who you’re with." @naval