If you can’t explain it to a child, then you don’t know it. It’s a common saying and it’s very true.

Study microeconomics, game theory, psychology, persuasion, ethics, mathematics, and computers.

Choiceless Awareness

The number of books completed is a vanity metric. As you know more, you leave more books unfinished. Focus on new concepts with predictive power.

The reality is you’ve been dead for the history of the Universe, 10 billion years or more. You will be dead for the next 70 billion years or so, until the heat death of the Universe.

We each have a contrarian belief society rejects. But the more our own identity and local tribe reject it, the more real it likely is.

You can get almost anything you want out of life, as long as it’s one thing and you want it far more than anything else. In my own personal experience, the place I end up the most is wanting to be at peace. Peace is happiness at rest, and happiness is peace in motion. You can convert peace into happiness anytime you want. But peace is what you want

Background

Mental models are really just compact ways for you to recall your own knowledge. [78]