Save Planet, Get Rich #5 — Naval Ravikant

  • Wisdom is understanding the long term consequences of your actions.
  • 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.
  • It is very easy for self-improvement to degenerate into self-conflict, and self-conflict to self-misery.
  • Somebody out there has to be smart and happy…why not me?
  • Human beings are built to return to the baseline of where they started.
  • Maximize the level of happiness available to you.
  • If you are not living up to your self-image, that’s a leash you put around your own neck.
  • Most of us are carrying very obsolete self-images that no longer correspond to the actual environment that we’re in.
  • Work is no way to live a life. Especially if you are a first world citizen with options.
  • The only opinion of me that I care for is my own, and the only time frame is now.
  • You get to give love, you don’t have the right to expect love.
  • Build your own garden, tend your own lawn, clean your own mind, tend to your own household and make sure your own household is a paragon before you go out and try to fix the world.
  • One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.
  • If you want to save the world, save your little corner of the world.
  • 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.
  • If you are completely honest, they can’t touch you.
  • The world rewards people who are the best in the world at something.
  • You escape competition through authenticity.