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Aug 14, 12 tweets

I used to be stressed and anxious out of my mind...

Then I found Naval Ravikant and obsessedly spent 400 hours+ binge-watching all of his podcasts online.

His ideas will make you immune to depression & anxiety.

This is Naval's Happiness Protocol: 🧵

Practical philosophy doesn’t have to be abstract.

Naval’s approach is simple:

• Health
• Wealth
• Happiness

If something works for one person, it can work for another.

But that's not all...

Live long enough, and you’ll ask:

• How do I stay happy?
• How do I stay healthy?
• How do I get wealthy?
• How do I raise a good family?

Three kinds of health:

• Financial: no daily fear about money
• Physical: no chronic disease or addiction
• Mental: peace and contentment with yourself

You can be happy without wealth — but it’s playing on hard mode.

1. HEALTH

• A sick man wants only one thing.
• A healthy man wants 10,000 things.

If your body breaks down, your mind follows.

Your genetics set the baseline — but you control more than you think.

Like fitness or nutrition, happiness can be learned and improved.

2/ DESIRE

Desire is a contract you make to be unhappy until you get what you want.

• Reduce your contracts.
• Reduce your unhappiness.

No single thing will make you happy forever.

3/ MEANINGFUL PLEASURE

Pursuing pleasure for its own sake leads to addiction.

Addiction creates fake work, fake play, fake relationships.

• We don’t just want peace of mind.
• We want peace from mind.

Breaking it means building a life where you’re happy without the noise.

WHY HAPPINESS?

A peaceful mind makes better decisions.

Warren Buffett wins by making a few high-quality decisions each year.

Peace improves judgment — and compounds faster than hard work.

Weaponized pleasures are everywhere.

Moments of awe silence the inner voice — and that’s what we crave.

Peace is happiness at rest.
Happiness is peace in motion.

Peace comes from understanding truth — not chasing more activity.

The closer you are to the truth, the quieter you become inside.

Wisdom creates stoicism — not the other way around.

Society says:

• Money won’t make you happy
• School is for education

Truth-seeking means seeing through consensus illusions.

Most self-improvement is disguised self-conflict.

True change is natural and arises from deep understanding.

Happiness isn't found; it's uncovered by shedding illusions, addictions, and finding truth.

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Naval's words will change your life, highly recommend giving his article a read:

nav.al/happiness

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