WISDOM
Visualize Failure: Imagining failure is way more effective than imagining success when establishing goals. “It’s the darkness none of us want to embrace, but fear is the more powerful motivator”
– Dr. Andrew Huberman
Dangers of Empathy: Empathy can very dangerous because empathy in the wrong context causes you to abandon your own emotional state. “Empathy is wonderful, only insofar as it allows us to understand and then return to the context that helps us make better decisions”. The ability to return to one’s internal state is one of the hallmarks of great leadership
– Dr. Andrew Huberman
Dopamine for Nothing and Likes For Free: Main reasons for the explosion of mental illness (anxiety, depression, ADHD, etc.) -The ready availability of pleasures without effort. Lack of understanding of our basic physiology.
– Dr. Andrew Huberman
We Don't Know Flow: “The most that we can say about flow at this point in history is that backward, it spells wolf. Meaning, I don’t think we really know how that’s generated in the brain.”
– Dr. Andrew Huberman
Mimetic Desire: relying on external references “to show us what is wantable”
- Luke Burgis
Thin Desires: (drugs, alcohol, social media) may provide short term satisfaction, but they eventually run out and lead to disappointment—they are temporar
y - Luke Burgis
Thick Desires: (relationships, belonging, meaning) create more pathways to direct your energy—they are a reoccurring investment
- Luke Burgis
Scapegoats (used to) Save Lives: When friend/enemy distinctions collapse, people try really hard to create differences. Scapegoats are the reintroduction of difference, which inherently is the reintroduction of peace (as counterintuitive that sounds). “Humans have always relied on violence to drive out violence throughout human history”
– Luke Burgis
Freedom of Speech is Supposed to Piss You Off: Free speech matters most when somebody you don’t like says something you don’t like. “I don’t have the ability to stop the media from trashing me, and that’s a good thing”
– Elon Musk
4 Years of Weekend at Bernies: “It’s hard to tell what Biden is doing, to be totally frank. The real president is whoever controls the teleprompter. The path to power is the path to the teleprompter”
– Elon Musk
HEALTH
Protein First At Diner, Never Been Thinner: Always eat your proteins first. You will naturally eat fewer calories; protein is the most satiating macronutrient
- Mind Pump
It's Ok to Keep Doing The Same Exercises: You can do the same lifts, but make sure to change up reps and tempo. There is a delicate balance between trying to master a lift and creating enough variation to avoid plateauing
- Mind Pump
Make More Babies: The worldwide declining birth rate “is the biggest single threat to civilization”. Having kids is not bad for the environment, it’s essential to maintaining civilization. Historically speaking, there’s no safer time to bring a child into the world than now
– Elon Musk
WEALTH
All Broke Investors Are the Same, But Rich Ones Are Different: It’s like the opening of Anna Karenina: “All happy families are alike, but all unhappy families are unhappy in their own way.”
– Nick Maggiulli quoting Tolstoy
If You Need It (debt), You Don't Want It: “Socialism works only for the rich. In other words, debt works best for the people who don’t need debt.”
– Jim O’ Shaughnessy
Raining Dumb Money: If economic booms last too long, you start to get misallocation of capital
“It starts raining money on fools”
– Elon Musk
