Quote by NAVAL - Deepstash
NAVAL

Memory and identity are burdens from the past preventing us from living freely in the present

NAVAL

5

38 reads

CURATED FROM

IDEAS CURATED BY

ashish7

Dreamer ☀️

10 Top Quotes From the Book “The Almanack Of Naval Ravikant”

The idea is part of this collection:

7 Books on Habits

Learn more about personaldevelopment with this collection

How to break bad habits

How habits are formed

The importance of consistency

Related collections

Similar ideas to NAVAL

Memory And Imagination

The process that provides us with vivid memories is the same one that we are using to imagine something. The mind treats past memory the same way as a future imagination. This also indicates that apart from the present moment, the past and future are just mental constructs.

Past, present, and future identities

  • Your present identity is based on what you said yes to yesterday, a product of your previous decisions.
  • Your future identity is what you say yes to today, a product of your current decisions.
  • Your past identity is what you’ll say yes to tomorrow. N...

"Spoilers" Of The Present

The real problem doesn't come from feeling pain the in moment, but from the way we use memory and anticipation.

The object or event we fear is not always something happening in the immediate future. It may be the problem of next month’s bills, a social or natural disast...

Read & Learn

20x Faster

without
deepstash

with
deepstash

with

deepstash

Personalized microlearning

100+ Learning Journeys

Access to 200,000+ ideas

Access to the mobile app

Unlimited idea saving

Unlimited history

Unlimited listening to ideas

Downloading & offline access

Supercharge your mind with one idea per day

Enter your email and spend 1 minute every day to learn something new.

Email

I agree to receive email updates