📝 NAVAL REVEALS THE KEY TO HAPPINESS

Wealth

1/ Wage Slavery: In the modern world, you want to earn money through knowledge and leverage, not by selling your time. “Nine to five is just modern slavery…it’s wage slavery” – Naval Ravikant [Premium]

2/ 3 Steps to Your First Mars Base: - Elon Musk

Create energy with a solar panel farm
Propellant production so you can make fuel to return to Earth
Build a greenhouse to grow plants and food

3/ “There is an infinite amount of cash in the federal reserve” – Neel Kashkari, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

Put it this way, you don’t need calculus to know your life savings divided by infinite is worthless, might as well save in grains of sand – Ross Stevens & Michael Saylor

4/ It’s Ok to Bring Up a Problem Even Without the Solution: The solution is to normalize in the culture to have people report problems. It’s better to have people report many small, solvable issues than to suddenly find out a huge issue that kept growing while you were unaware of it – Ben Horowitz

5/ Time Focus Ratios: - James Beshara

As a founder or executive, 25% of what you’re thinking about should be the current state of the company while 75% should be focused 90 days out and beyond
Managers should be thinking 50% present and 50% future
Employees should be thinking 75% present and 25% future

6/ The Pyramid of Clarity: - Duncan Moskowitz

The Mission
Strategy
Company-wide objectives
Business, product, and internal objectives
Key results
Projects

Wisdom

7/ Think Bigger: “In order to understand the meaning of life, we got to expand the scope and scale of consciousness…A species that does not become multi-planetary is simply waiting around till there’s some extinction event.” – Elon Musk

8/ We Are All Flat Earthers: “If you are determined to believe something, there is absolutely no one who is going to stop you from believing it”. For instance, there’s a growing group of 10,000+ people who believe the Earth is flat and won’t change their minds no matter what evidence you show them. If you put them on a spaceship, they would insist that you drugged them. – Tim Urban

9/ Podcasts About Books > The Book Itself: When someone who wrote a book goes on podcasts, his ideas may be challenged, sparking new and interesting conversations that you would not find in the book – Zev Weinstein

Health:

10/ Resveratrol Lifespan Research Was Flawed, Also There’s Barely Any In Wine: - Richard Miller, M.D., Ph.D.

The mouse diet was consistent of 60% coconut oil, almost poisonous levels – the mice were dying of fatty liver and severe liver inflammation
Resveratrol is barely present in wine; you primarily find it in rhubarb

11/ The REAL Reason to be Fit: Fitness changes your relationship with pain; embrace failure as part of the process; focus on what you can change, ignore everything else; consistency is key; healthy self-criticism is good – Mind Pump