Thread by @MindHaste

30 Thoughts from @Naval you Should Learn

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1. "If you want to be successful,
surround yourself with people who are more successful than you are,
but if you want to be happy,
surround yourself with people who are less successful than you are."

2. "Trade money for time, not time for money. You’re going to run out of time first."

3. "I, and I alone, am responsible for everything I think and feel."

4. "A permanent solution to a temporary problem becomes a permanent problem."

5. "If you don’t care to be liked, they can’t touch you."

6. "Better “wrong” alone than “right” with the herd."

7. "It isn’t 10,000 hours that creates outliers, it’s 10,000 iterations."

8. "Your closest friends are the ones you can have a relationship with about nothing."

9. "Inspiration is perishable - act on it immediately."

10. "The reason to win the game is so that you can be free of it."

11. "Meditation is intermittent fasting for the mind.
Too much sugar leads to a heavy body & too many distractions lead to a heavy mind.
Time spent undistracted & alone, in self-examination, journaling, meditation, resolves the unresolved and takes us from mentally fat to fit."

12. "You don’t get rich by spending your time to save money.

You get rich by saving your time to make money."

13. "The quality of your mind is the quality of your life."

14. "The biggest mistake any performer can make is to look at the audience."

15. "We study science to learn how to get what we want. We study philosophy to know what to want in the first place."

16. "You know that song that you can't get out of your head?
All thoughts work that way. Careful what you read."

17. "If you don't own a piece of a business, you don't have a path towards financial freedom."

18. "Networking is overrated.
Become first and foremost a person of value and the network will be available whenever you need it."

19. "Clear Thinker" is a better compliment than "Smart."

20. "Startups don't die when they run out of cash, they die when the founders run out of energy."

21. "There's no shortcut to smart."

22. "You’re never going to get rich renting out your time."

23. "Free education is abundant, all over the internet.
It’s the desire to learn that’s scarce."

24. "If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone."

25. "Learning is cheap, education is expensive."

26. "The price of productivity is creativity."

27. "Fasting focuses the mind - it replaces all desires with a single desire."

28. "Charisma is the ability to project confidence and love at the same time."

29. "A taste of freedom can make you unemployable."

30. "If the work doesn’t require creativity, delegate it, automate it, or leave it."