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- We get paid because the customer is willing to pay some profit margin on top of cogs.
- Naval - Unexamined life causes our anxiety. It can be examined through therapy, meditation and it reveals you to your thoughts. If you want to know the quality of your life, sit down and do nothing and let your mind tell you. Desires, regrets, contradictions, etc. Proper meditation should ruin your life.
- Naval - A muddled thinker is one whose beliefs are socialized. If you want to be a muddled thinker, read politics.
- Beliefs are placebos. We believe whatever supports our emotions. You’ll find evidence to support your beliefs. You can always choose what you believe. Then stacking evidence against that belief.
- Happiness is piece at motion. If you’re a peaceful person, any activity will be a happy activity.
- Technology always pushes left. Technology empowers the individual. Empowering the individual means a breakdown in religion, and culture. There’s always a left-wing shift.
- I think I accepted my drive as a part of who I am. I didn’t resist it at first because I had unlimited resources of power that justified moving forward. Then I thought I shouldn’t be like that. But now, I can proudly say, drive is a part of who I am.
- The meaning of life is to mean something to someone. That’s it. People who live most gracefully are the ones that have allowed themselves to give more than they take, and to live a life filled with openness and joy. Thank God for those people.
- Once you start acknowledging your limited time on this planet, as this fully-functional conscious being, you start to think of the ephemerality of things. That notion creates a sense of urgency and intensity in every moment - Neal DeGrasse Tyson.
- As a cheetah has its own directing mind telling it to hunt, to be a predator, to live to fight another day. I believe we people have the same relationship with our universe. Our directing mind entails the additional ultra self-consciousness that puts us into suffering through self-reconciliation & thinking, yet it’s the same internal voice a cheetah aspires to.
- Time is not endless, but we could say it’s constant for the majority. But how you experience time is diverse. One can live a 3x more fulfilled life than another simply by being present.
- A brand is created when your values resonate with people.
- Start saying things that the internal voice cannot object to.
- Lazy people spend their time thinking about how they can get other people to accomplish things for them.
- Driven people spend their time thinking about how they can accomplish things for themselves and others.
- Entrepreneurs think about how they can get driven people to accomplish things for lazy people while paying the driven people X and charging the lazy people X + 25%.
- The people who build wealth in this world help both lazy people and driven people accomplish their goals and make a killing while they’re at it.
- The greatest originals are the ones who fail the most, because they’re the ones who try the most.
- All people live their lives according to their ultimate truth. We don’t want to know what's the truth nor do we want to be right, we want way harder to be understood. People spend more than justifying their means of truth than trying to find what the truth is.
- Just because you’re obeying the law doesn’t mean you’re moral, it may mean you’re afraid.
- Do you think everybody acts on their own best behalf? I think we operate on what’s available to us at that time. When you focus on yourself, on expanding and clearing your mind, you enhance what becomes available to you.
