Thread by @corey_gwin

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https://twitter.com/naval/status/1136097147680542724

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

"A clear mind leads to better judgement, leads to better outcome.

A happy, clam, peaceful person will make better decisions and have better outcomes.

If you want to operate at peak performance you have to learn how to tame your mind, just like how you can tame your body."

Low Stress + McDonald's > High Stress

"What you do, who you do it with, how you do it, are way more important than how hard you work.

Outputs are non-linear based on the quality of the work you put in."

"We're seeing an atomization of the firm. The optimal size of a firm shrinking.

What we'll see is high quality work be available in a gig fashion. Smart people have started figuring out the Internet enables this.

The Info Revolution allows us to go back to work for ourselves."

"One of the myths of today is that adults cannot be re-educated."

"Coding is thinking. It's automating structured thinking."

"Creativity is the last frontier."

"We should always strive to provide equal opportunity.

But people confuse that w equal outcome.

Free people make different choices. Different choices have different outcomes.

It's interesting, there are no writing socialist examples working wo violence..."

"Everybody can be wealthy. It is not a zero sum game. It is a positive sum game.

You create something brand new. You exchange it with me for something brand new. High value for both of us. The sum total is positive.

It's not like status. 'You're high. I'm low.' Sum is zero."

"Socialism comes from the heart.

Capitalism comes from the head."

"The larger the group of people you have amassed together with different interests, the less trust there is, the more cheating there is, the better the incentives have to be, the better the system has to work, the more you go towards capitalism."

"'If you want to see who rules over you, see who you're not allowed to criticize.'"

"Outrage is low level thinking.

These are the foot soldiers of the mob."

"The ancient struggle was the tribal struggle. You had your tribe. You had meaning & support but you'd struggle against other tribes.

Modern life—we're so free—we stand alone. When they come for you, you're alone.

The modern struggle—as an individual—is how to resist things."

"What the Internet does is great one or two giant aggregators for everything.

And it creates and atomized long tail off millions of individuals.

What it gets rid of is the medium sized ones in the middle.

One hegemony. Millions of individuals."

"The most powerful people in the world are the people who are writing the algorithms for Twitter, Google, Facebook, and Instagram.

They are controlling the spread of information. They are rewriting people's brains. They are controlling the culture."

"Whenever you suppress speech the organism metastasizes."

"The social sciences—you can tell they are fake because they have the word 'science' tacked on the end (🌶)—have come & hijacked the universities & become the new think tanks.

What you see at universities is a war between social & physical sciences. The battleline is biology."

"The test of any good [governmental] system is to build your system and hand it over to your enemies to run for the next decade."

"[Because of two party system] all your beliefs have to fit in one bundle. When you get into that tribe, if you signal outside of that tribe, you get attacked.

If you want to be a clear thinker, you cannot pay attention to politics. It will destroy your ability to think."

"Most of modern life, all of our diseases are of abundance, not of scarcity.

We're overexposed to everything.

The way to survive in a modern society is to be an ascetic—to retreat from society. There's too much society everywhere you go.

The only solution is to turn it off."

"'All of man's problems arise because he will not sit by himself with his thoughts for 30 minutes alone.'"

"[What mediation is] is the art of doing nothing.

It's important because it's self therapy. To listen to yourself. To arrive at doing nothing."

"Peace is happiness at rest.

Happiness is peace in motion.

You can convert peace into happiness anytime you want."

"The way we think we get peace is be resolving all our external problems.

There are unlimited external problems.

They only way to get peace is in the inside, by giving up this idea of problems."

"[The best way to influence others] is to live the life you want others to live."

"People are not going to want to give up economic growth. They are going to have to get rich first."

"Memorization is an indication you don't understand."

What is the meaning of life?

"Because."

"There are no get rich quick schemes. That's just somebody trying to get rich off of you."

"Everybody can be rich.

Imagine if we could wave a wand & everyone is trained as a scientist/engineer.

If all educated [hard sciences], we'd be done in 5 yrs—robots doing it all.

And what would we do? Creative jobs. We'd have wonderful lives.

It's a matter of education."

"If you're smart, you should be able to figure out how to be happy."

"It's not 'peace of mind' it's 'peace from mind.'

Most of the ways we try to get peace from mind are very indirect.

If you really understand things, if your see things properly, you will naturally develop peace from mind."

"The fundamental delusion is that there is something out there that will make me happy

There is. It's called death."

"Retirement is when you stop sacrificing today for some imaginary tomorrow.

When today is complete in and of itself, you're retired."

"The most powerful money makers are individual brands who themselves are leverage. They have knowledge that nobody else has. They're knowledge is the knowledge of themselves. Knows all these people. Can't replace them. Have to pay what they're worth."

"The way to retire is to find the thing you know how to do better than anybody else. And you know how to do that better because you love to do it. No one can compete. Authentic.

Then map it to what society wants. Apply leverage. Put name on it—risk. Own it—equity. Crank it out."

"'There's two great addictions: heroin and a monthly salary.'"

"Envy makes the world go round."

"Your real resume is just a catalog of all your suffering."

"Life is really a single player game. It's all going on in your head. Whatever you think you believe will very much said your reality both from what risks you take—actions you perform—and judgements you make.

Reality is neutral. How you choose to interpret is up to you."

"'Every man has two lives and the second one begins when he realizes he has just one.'"

"It's your unlimited desires clouding your happiness."

"One of the secrets to happiness is to really embrace what you're doing in that moment.

I only want to do actions that are complete in and of themselves."

Thank you @naval for sharing your wisdom.

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