#1309 - Naval Ravikant

I believe everybody can be wealthy. It's not a zero-sum game. It is a positive-sum game.

The most important relationship you have is with yourself—it's with this voice in your head that is constantly rattling every waking hour. It's this crazy roommate living inside your mind who's always chattering [and] never shuts up. And you can't control these thoughts—they just come up out of you don't even know where ... Those conversations you'... See more

Desire is suffering... every desire you have is an axis where you will suffer. So just don't focus on more than one desire to time. The universe is rigged in such a way that if you just want one thing, and you focus on that, you'll get it, but everything else you gotta let go.

If you want to see who rules over you, see who you're not allowed to criticize

Proper meditation—proper examination—should ruin the life that you're currently living. It should cause you to leave relationships. It should cause you to re-establish boundaries with family members and colleagues. It should cause you to quit your job. It should cause you to change your eating patterns ... If it doesn't do that, it's not real exami... See more

I tell people to learn to code the same reason why I'm sure, in the 1600s or 1700s, it was good advice to tell people to learn to read and to write. Yes, not everyone is going to be a great author. Yes, not everyone is going to be an avid reader. But they should all know how to read and write. And I think coding is just the new literacy. For the sa... See more

The modern environmental movement identifies the correct problem, but doesn't come up with the right set of solutions that are appealing to people

The way to get out of the competition trap is actually to be authentic

Desire to me is a contract that you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want

The human brain is not designed to absorb all of the world's breaking news and 24/7 emergencies, injected straight into the skull with clickbait headlines. If you pay attention to that stuff, even if you have a sound mind and body, it will eventually drive you insane.