- Lusting for money is bad for us because it is a bottomless pit. It will always occupy your mind. If you love money, and you make it, there's never enough.
If someone is using a lot of fancy words and a lot of big concepts, they probably don't know what there are talking about. I think the smartest people can explain things to a child.
- Meditation is turning off society abd listening to yourself. It only works when done for its own sake.
- If you have nothing in your life, but you have at least one person that loves you unconditionally, it'll do wonders for your self-esteem
- Play iterated games.
- Don't partner with cynics and pessimists.
- Reading is a faster than listening. Doing is faster than watching.
- You should be too busy to "do coffee" while still keeping an uncluttered (не загроможденный) calendar.
- Value your time at an hourly rate, and ruthlessly spend to save time a that rate.
- Judgment - especially demonstrated judgment, with high accountability and clear track record - is critical.
Life formulas
- Happiness = Health + Wealth + Good relationships
— Health = Exercise + Diet + Sleep
—- Exercise = High intensity resistance training + sports + rest
—- Diet = Natural foods + intermittent fasting + plants
—- Sleep = no alarms + 8-9 hours + circadian rhytms
— Wealth = income + wealth * (ROI)
—- Income = Accountability + leverage + specific knowledge
—— Accountability = personal branding + personal platform + taking ris
—— Leverage = Capital + people + intellectual property
—— Specific knowledge = knowing how to do something society cannot yet easily train other people to do
—— ROI = Buy-and-Hold + Valuation + margin of safety
- Be present above all else
- Desire is suffering (Buddha)
- Anger is a hot coal you hold in your hand while waiting to throw it at someone else (Buddha)
- If you can't see yourself working with someone for life, don't work with them for a day
- Reading (learning) is the ultimate meta-skill and can be traded for anything else
- All the real benefits in life come from compound interest
- Earn with your mind, not your time
- 99 percent of all effort is wasted
- Total honesty at all time. It's almost always possible to be honest and positive.
- Praise specifically, criticize generally (Warren Buffett)
- Truth is that which has predictive power
Watch every thought (ask why am i having that thoughts)
- All greatness comes from suffering
- Love is given, not received
- Enlightenment is space between your thoughts (Eckhart Tolle)
- Mathematics is a language of nature
- Every moment has to be complete in and of itself
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qHkcs3kG44