Thread by @Harshalmore31

Some Short Lessons from Almanack of @naval Ravikant .

“The harder the workout, the easier the day.”

“World’s simplest diet: The more processed the food, the less one should consume.”

“The combination of sugar and fat together is really deadly. You’ve got to watch out for that in your diet.”

“Most fit and healthy people focus much more on what they eat than how much. Quality control is easier than (and leads to) quantity control.”

“Doctors won’t make you healthy.
Nutritionists won’t make you slim.
Teachers won’t make you smart.
Gurus won’t make you calm.
Mentors won’t make you rich.
Trainers won’t make you fit.
Ultimately, you have to take responsibility.
Save yourself.”

“The important thing is to do something every day. It doesn’t matter what it is. The best workout for you is one you’re excited enough to do every day. ”

“Easy choices, hard life. Hard choices, easy life.”

“I learned a very important lesson from this: most of our suffering comes from avoidance “Meditation is intermittent fasting for the mind.
Too much sugar leads to a heavy body, and too many distractions lead to a heavy mind.

Time spent undistracted and alone, in self-examination, journaling, meditation, resolves the unresolved and takes us from mentally fat to fit.”

“You don’t make any decisions. You don’t judge anything. You just accept everything. If I do that for ten or fifteen minutes while walking around, I end up in a very peaceful, grateful state. Choiceless Awareness works well for me.”

“Life-hack: When in bed, meditate. Either you will have a deep meditation or fall asleep. Victory either way.”

“I recommend meditating one hour each morning because anything less is not enough time to really get deep into it. I would recommend if you really want to try meditation, try sixty days of one hour a day, first thing in the morning.

After about sixty days, you will be tired of listening to your own mind. You will have resolved a lot of issues, or you have heard them enough to see through those fears and issues.”

“If thoughts come, thoughts come. I’m not going to fight them. I’m not going to embrace them. I’m not going to think harder about them. I’m not going to reject them. I’m just going to sit here for an hour with my eyes closed, and I’m going to do nothing.”

How hard is that? Why can you not do anything for an hour? What’s so hard about giving yourself an hour-long break? ”

“All of society does this to some extent. People chasing thrills in action sports or flow states or orgasms any of these states people strive for are people trying to get out of their own heads. They’re trying to get away from the voice in their heads the sense of self .

“The first thing to realize is you can observe your mental state. Meditation doesn’t mean you’re suddenly going to gain the superpower to control your internal state.

The advantage of meditation is recognizing just how out of control your mind is. It is like a monkey flinging feces, running around the room, making trouble, shouting, and breaking things. It’s completely uncontrollable. It’s an out-of-control madperson.”

“I’m actually going back to my awareness level of OS, which is always calm, always peaceful, and generally happy and content. I’m trying to stay in awareness mode and not activate the monkey mind, which is always worried, frightened, and anxious.

It serves incredible purpose, but I try not to activate the monkey mind until I need it. When I need it, I want to just focus on that. If I run it 24/7, I waste energy and the monkey mind becomes me. I am more than my monkey”

“Another thing: spirituality, religion, Buddhism, or anything you follow will teach you over time you are more than just your mind. You are more than just your habits. You are more than just your preferences. You’re a level of awareness.”

“We live too much in this internal monologue in our heads. All of which is just programmed into you by society and by the environment when you were younger.”

“You are basically a bunch of DNA that reacted to environmental effects when you were younger. You recorded the good and bad experiences, and you use them to prejudge everything thrown against you.

Then you’re using those experiences, constantly trying and predict and change the future.”

“The mind itself is a muscle—it can be trained and conditioned. It has been haphazardly conditioned by society to be out of our control. If you look at your mind with awareness and intent (a 24/7 job you’re working at every moment).

I think you can unpack your own mind, your emotions, thoughts, and reactions. Then you can start reconfiguring. You can start rewriting this program to what you want.”

“Meditation is turning off society and listening to yourself

It only “works” when done for its own sake.
Hiking is walking meditation.”
“Journaling is writing meditation.
Praying is gratitude meditation.
Showering is accidental meditation.
Sitting quietly is direct meditation.”
“The greatest superpower is the ability to change yourself.”

“To have peace of mind, you have to have peace of body first.”

“ I want to do this ——I would just do it——It’s gonna end” Don’t think “ I want to do this “ , just go and start doing it.Commit externally to enough people. For example, if you want to quit smoking, all you have to do is go to everybody you know and say, “I quit smoking. I did it

“Be honest with yourself ”

“When you really want to change, you just change. But most of us don’t really want to change—we don’t want to go through the pain just yet. At least recognize it, be aware of it, and give yourself a smaller change you can actually carry out.”

“Impatience with actions, patience with results.”

“Anything you have to do, just get it done. Why wait? You’re not getting any younger. Your life is slipping away. You don’t want to spend it waiting in line. You don’t want to spend it traveling back and forth.

You don’t want to spend it doing things you know ultimately aren’t part of your mission.”“It takes a long time for markets to adopt products. It takes time for people to get comfortable working with each other.

It takes time for great products to emerge as you polish away, polish away, polish away. Impatience with actions, patience with results. As Nivi said, inspiration is perishable. When you have inspiration, act on it right then and there. ”

“CHOOSING TO GROW YOURSELF”

“The current environment programs the brain, but the clever brain can choose its upcoming environment.”

“If there’s something you want to do later, do it now. There is no “later.”

“Science is, to me, the study of truth. It is the only true discipline because it makes falsifiable predictions. It actually changes the world. Applied science becomes technology, and technology is what separates us from the animals and allows us to have things like phones ,etc .

“Science, to me, is the study of truth and mathematics is the language of science and nature.”

“For self-improvement without self-discipline, update your self-image.”

“Everyone’s motivated at something. It just depends on the thing. Even the people that we say are unmotivated are suddenly really motivated when they’re playing video games. I think motivation is relative, so you just have to find the thing you’re into. ”

“Grind and sweat, toil and bleed, face the abyss. It’s all part of becoming an overnight success.”

“Related to the skill of reading are the skills of mathematics and persuasion. Both skills help you to navigate through the real world.

Having the skill of persuasion is important because if you can influence your fellow human beings, you can get a lot done. I think persuasion is an actual skill. So you can learn it, and it’s not that hard to do so.

Mathematics helps with all the complex and difficult things in life. If you want to make money, if you want to do science, if you want to understand game theory or politics or economics or investments or computers, all of these things have mathematics at the core.

It’s a foundational language of nature.”

“CHOOSING TO FREE YOURSELF

The hardest thing is not doing what you want—it’s knowing what you want.”