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Getting rich is not just about luck; happiness is not just a trait we are born with. These aspirations may seem out of reach, but building wealth and being happy are skills we can learn.

So what are these skills, and how do we learn them? What are the principles that should guide our efforts? What does progress really look like?

Navy SEAL, author, and podcaster Jocko Willink shares advice on how to build discipline, raising kids, controlling your emotions, and more gems of wisdom.

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1/ “Impatience with action, patience with results”: Do that workout or write that blog post today, but don’t expect huge results right away – Naval Ravikant
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2/ Free Edward Snowden: “I think you’re a hero and I think that what you’ve done, history will be kind to you…I think our government is on the wrong side of history” – Joe Rogan
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3/ Don’t be a Useless Friend: “When people say ‘don’t be sad, don’t be angry’, really, what they’re saying is, ‘I don’t want to deal with you being angry or sad, and I don’t want to feel that way so I want you to calm down” - Lisa Feldman Barrett
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4/ Big Numbers Are Hard: The human mind tends to have a difficult time grasping to large concepts (such as reality or numbers in the millions). Joseph Stalin famously said “The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.” – Tinkered Thinking
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5/ Gold, Silver or Bitcoin – Pick One: “What I want is something that might be cut in half that can go up by a factor of 10, that’s what any intelligent investor wants” – Michael Saylor
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6/ 2019 Silicon Valley is NEVER Coming Back: Because so many people are moving out of San Francisco, you no longer have to go there to network and build a great company. The next tech city will be in the cloud. – Austen Allred
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7/ If You Can’t Beat Em, Join Em: Merging with AI, one way to ensure our survival is to expand the capacity of the human mind, to communicate with AI, and with the AI to communicate with the human mind” – Lex Fridman
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8/ The Road To Hell…: “Many of the greatest tragedies in human history are the result of Utopians attempting to inflict their viewpoint on a population and then discovering in which way it comes apart” - Bret Weinstein
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9/ Raise the Right Amount From the Right Investor: Understand what’s a meaningful amount of money for each investor that will make them care and architect the fundraising round around that – Ryan Delk
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10/ Toss Those Nikes: Even kids should wear minimalist shoes as prevention for many of the gait issues and chronic joint pains developed in adulthood – Irene Davis PhD
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