Tim Ferriss Show – Naval Ravikant on Happiness, Reducing Anxiety, Crypto Stablecoins, and Crypto Strategy (#473)

  • Applied science is the engine that pulls humanity forward.
  • If you want to hear the truth, you have to be prepared to be hurt a little bit.
  • It is easier to macro bullshit than it is to micro bullshit.
  • Most of the disciplines that have science at the end of them are not really science. 
    • Exception-Computer Science
  • If you understand the principles, but do not understand the words, you will have an advantage.
    • Learn first principles.
  • You want to productize yourself into a business, then you want to own that business.
  • Suffering is the moment you see things as they clearly are and you don’t like what you see.
  • What you already know and what you are already doing is an impediment to your full potential.
  • The lottery is for losers. The lottery is a tax on people who can’t do math.
  • Make money with your mind, not with your time,
  • Find the thing that feels like play to you but looks like work to others.
  • The best relationships do not feel like work.
  • If you are scoring points in meditation you are doing it wrong