Wealth
1/ Government Hypocrisy: “Instead of prohibiting counterfeiting, they [government] become the biggest counterfeiters” – Ron Paul
2/ Your Lack of Personality is Their Sales Potential: “Because advertisements link identity with the need to purchase products, the acceleration of visual culture promotes the hyper-consumption associated with late capitalism.” – Jonah Peretti – [Premium]
3/ Mediocre Products Abound: “Conventional marketing approaches probably encourage us to make products that are kind of ok” - Rory Sutherland
4/ Find The Fraud: The fraud cycle follows the financial cycle but with a lag, it starts long into a bull market and is revealed after a market crash – Jim ChanosWisdom
5/ The 1 Thing Worth Learning From Law School: “It taught me how very quickly reply and quickly think on my feet or my toes. But it also taught me how to write really, really well. And for those things alone, I wouldn’t change it for anything in the world.” – Harley Finkelstein
- Read more to find how to skip law school and get the same skills
6/ The 1 Skill Above All: The most important skill is the ability to save other people time – Sahil Lavinga (Founder, Gumroad)
7/ Savor The Failure: “If you could take your experiences and ask to trade them in, the last ones I would trade would be the failures, those are the most valuable ones” Jerry Seinfeld
Health:
8/ What’s The Deal With All This Meditation? “I think I could solve just about anyone’s life, I don’t care what you do, with weight training and transcendental meditation” Jerry Seinfeld
9/ Watch Your Tone: “Tone” is a made-up word – muscles build and shrink – Mind Pump
10/ What Exactly is Insulin Resistance and Why Should I Care? The root cause of diabetes, fatty liver disease, heart disease, and cancer. Almost everyone who is overweight or obese has insulin resistance. You can be perfectly asymptomatic and have insulin resistance - Gerald Shulman, M.D., Ph.D.
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