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The more worldly success you have, the more your ego gets built up. The more fearful you might be of losing it all. The more fearful my might be about what other people think. The more you have to lose. The more you get caught up in this dream of who you think you are. I think worldly success actually hurts.
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The purpose of wealth is freedom. It’s nothing more than that. It’s not to buy fur coats, or drive Ferraris, or sail yachts, or jet around the world in your Gulfstream. That stuff gets really boring and really stupid, really fast.
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So, you don’t have to wake up at 7:00 AM, and rush to work, and sit in commute traffic.
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The reason you want wealth is because it buys you your freedom. So, you don’t have to wear a tie like a collar around your neck.
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Investing favors the dispassionate. Markets efficiently separate emotional investors from their money.
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Wealth creation is an evolutionarily recent positive-sum game. Status is an old zero-sum game. Those attacking wealth creation are often just seeking status.
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It’s not something you can buy. No amount of money or power will bring you true, unconditional love.
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When you have children, you learn to love something more than you love yourself, and you can talk about that all day long, but you have never had that feeling until you’ve had a child.
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Love people more. […] It turns out you can give love. It’s free to give. […] On a long enough time scale, the universe sends it back your way.
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The way to retire is actually to find the thing that you know how to do better than anybody. And you know how to do it better than anybody because you love to do it.
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A fit body, a calm mind, a house full of love. These things cannot be bought — they must be earned.
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Develop ‘strategic incompetence’ – people won’t ask you to do things you hate to do, if you’re bad at them.
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People who try to look smart by pointing out obvious exceptions actually signal the opposite.
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Given that the main function of universities these days is filtering and signaling, the best move is to get admitted to Stanford and then drop out.
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A vacation is a very expensive way to schedule the time to read a book in peace.
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We’re basically monkeys on a small rock orbiting a small backwards star in a huge galaxy, which is in an absolutely staggeringly gigantic universe, which itself may be part of a gigantic multiverse.
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On meditation: It’s self-therapy. Instead of paying a therapist to sit there and listen to you, you’re listening to yourself.
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It is the mark of a charlatan to explain a simple concept in a complex way.
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Politics is sports writ large — pick a side, rally the tribe, exchange stories confirming bias, hurl insults and threats at the other side.
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If you can’t delete an email without flinching or responding, you won’t scale.
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We are going from bread and circuses to cannabis and video games to psychedelics and VR.
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Free education is abundant, all over the Internet. It’s the desire to learn that’s scarce. Cultivate that desire by reading what you want.
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I no longer track books read or even care about books read. It’s about understanding concepts.
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I feel no obligation whatsoever to finish the book. If at some point I decide the book is boring, or if it’s got pieces of it that are incorrect so now I can’t trust the rest of the information in there, I just delete it.
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Sometimes I’ll start reading a book in the middle because some paragraph caught my eye and I’ll just continue from there.
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At any given time I’m reading somewhere between ten and 20 books. I’m flipping through them. If the book is getting a little boring, I’ll skip ahead.
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The real education begins in the library, it begins with books. If you can learn to like to read, you never need to go to school.
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The best way to read is to: Pick up a lot of books. Start reading them all. Put down any book instantly that doesn’t grab you. And just keep going until you find something that speaks to you.
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Be ruthless about not scheduling things. You will have to disappoint people, but when they want your time, that’s their problem, not yours.
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