Listened to the @SamanthaRyNZ Save Planet, Get Rich podcast with Naval Ravikant @naval.
Naval was on fire. It took me two hours to get through an hour long podcast. I had to keep pausing to take notes.
Here are my main take-aways from this excellent podcast episode.
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"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." @naval
Great perspective on what to pay attention to and what to safely ignore.
"It is very easy for self-improvement to degenerate into self-conflict, and self-conflict to self-misery." @naval
It is great to improve and develop yourself. Just make sure you are coming from a place of self love and respect.
"Maximize the level of happiness available to you." @naval
You may not be able to be the happiest person in the world. But you can be happier than you currently are. It is a skill you can develop.
"Most of us are carrying very obsolete self-images that no longer correspond to the actual environment that we're in." @naval
Don't keep buying into your old narratives. Very good chance they no longer apply based on current evidence.
"The only opinion of me that I care for is my own, and the only time frame is now." @naval
Future opinions of you do not matter. Other's opinions of you do not matter. Live according to your own standards.
"If you want to save the world, save your little corner of the world." @naval
Anything you want to change ... it needs to start at home.
"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." @naval
Very Stoic! You can't be hurt unless you let yourself be hurt. It's up to you.
"If you are completely honest, they can't touch you." @naval
You best bet is always to be your genuine, authentic self.
Do yourself a favor and check out the "hidden gem" Save Planet, Get Rich podcast with Naval Ravikant @naval.
Here is how to access the podcast from the man himself:
Rome's 1st Emperor, he famously found Rome a city of brick and left it a city of marble.
Here’s the story of Gaius Octavius, better known as Augustus, and how he reshaped Roman history.
A Roman History 🧵
Name: Gaius Octavius → Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus → Augustus
Lifespan: 63 BC – AD 14
Reign: 27 BC – AD 14
Came to power: After Julius Caesar’s assassination, defeating rivals in a brutal civil war
The Early Years
Gaius Octavious (better known as Octavian) was born in the Palantine Hill district into a wealthy but not especially powerful family on September 23, 63 BC.
His mother was Atia Balba Caesonia; Julius Caesar's niece, giving Octavian a blood tie to Caesar.
The proscription of Cicero was one of the most tragic events of the late Roman Republic.
Why was Cicero, a former Consul and respected member of Roman politics, selected to be proscribed?
Let's do a deep dive into the proscription of Cicero.
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Let's set the table of the people and events that led to the proscription of Cicero.
The year is 43 BC. In a tumultuous series of events following the assassination of Caesar, Mark Antony, Lepidus, and Octavian (later known as Augustus) have formed an alliance to advance their political agendas.
Each Triumvirate member has absolute powers in different territories of the empire.
The alliance is destined to be short-lived as each has their own designs to win the power struggle and establish themselves as the top man in Rome.
The Late Roman Republic was, pound for pound, the most fascinating period of Roman History.
No other time in long history of Rome had such a high density of impressive and captivating individuals.
Let's explore the incredible figures from the Late Roman Republic. /🏛️🧵
For purposes of this thread, we will look at the people involved in the events starting with Caesar crossing the Rubicon in 49 BC and ending with the battle of Actium in 31 BC.
This period has the highest density of of fascinating people in the late Roman Republic.
The People of the Late Roman Republic
This period is literally a "who's who" of famous people. The history books are filled with their names, countless books are written about them, and they spark our imagination with the might and majesty of Roman History.
• Julius Caesar
• Pompey the Great
• Cicero
• Mark Antony
• Brutus
• Cato the Younger
• Cleopatra
• Octavian
The years 96 AD to 180 AD were the best in all of Roman History.
During this glorious era, five men ruled Rome to unprecedented heights of prosperity.
Let's journey back to the height of the Pax Romana and explore The 5 Good Emperors of Rome /🏛️🧵
Who Were the 5 Good Emperors of Rome?
The reign of the Five Good Emperors of Romespanned 84 years from 96 to 180 AD. Here are the emperors and their respective reigns:
• Nerva (96–98 AD) – 2 years
• Trajan (98–117 AD) – 19 years
• Hadrian (117–138 AD) – 21 years
• Antoninus Pius (138–161 AD) – 23 years
• Marcus Aurelius (161–180 AD) – 19 years
These were five emperors who made up the lion's share of the Nerva-Antonine Dynasty, along with Luciius Verus (Marcus Aurelius' brother by adoption) and Commodus (Marcus Aurelius's son)
But not for the 5 Good Emperors.Jd Emperors?
These Emperors were known for their just and effective governance. Things were good in the Roman Empire and it expanded to its greatest territorial extent under Trajan in 117 AD.
These 5 Emperors represented a very unique time in Roman History. It was a period of peaceful transition of power, a very rare thing in the Roman Empire.
Violence was the norm as one Emperor's reign ended and another's began. Murder, assassination, poisoning...you name it. The transition of power in the Roman Empire was typically bloody and brutal.
But not for the 5 Good Emperors.
Just look at the Wikipedia page. It's the only instance you will find of five Roman Emperors in a row dying of natural causes.