Expectations, Jealousy And Happiness

We are highly judgmental survival-and-replication machines. We constantly walk around thinking, “I need this,” or “I need that,” trapped in the web of desires. Happiness is the state when nothing is missing. When nothing is missing, your mind shuts down and stops running into the...

1. Read everything you can. And not just the stuff that society tells you is good. Just read for its own sake. Develop a love for it.
2. Having the skill of persuasion is important because if you can influence your fellow human beings, you can get a lot do...

• In any situation in life, you always have three choices: you can change it, you can accept it, or you can leave it.
• If you want to change it, then it is a desire. It will cause you suffering until you successfully change it. So don’t pick too many of those. Pick one ...

• If you’re present, you’ll realize how many gifts and how much abundance there is around us at all times.
• First, you know it. Then, you understand it. Then, you can explain it. Then, you can feel it. Finally, you are it.
• At the end of the day, you are a combin...

• Wealth is assets that can earn while you sleep and that is being reinvested into other assets.
• Intentions don’t matter. Action do.
• “Learn to sell , learn to build. If you can do both , you will be unstoppable.”
• “Making money is not a thing you do- it’...

• Relaxed breathing tells your body you’re safe. Then, your forebrain doesn’t need as many resources as it normally does. Now, the extra energy can reroute those resources to the rest of your body.
• If you stop talking to yourself for even ten minutes, if you stop obses...

• Don’t spend your time making other people happy. Other people being happy is their problem. It’s not your problem. If you are happy, it makes other people happy.
• Anger is a loss of control over the situation.
• Anger is a contract you make with yourself...

• Happiness = Health + Wealth + Good Relationships
• Health = Exercise + Diet + Sleep
• Exercise = High Intensity Resistance Training + Sports + Rest
• Diet = Natural Foods + Intermittent Fasting + Plants
• Sleep = No alarms + 8–9 hours + Circadian rhythms
• Wealt...

• Brain works better
• Exercise & sunlight
• Shorter, less pleasantries
• More dialogue, less monologue
• No slides
• End easily by walking back

“I don’t have time” is just another way of saying “It’s not a priority.”

1. Hope luck finds you.
2. Hustle until you stumble into it.
3. Prepare the mind and be sensitive to chances other miss.
4. Become the best at what you do.

• Leverage = Capital + People + Intellectual Property
• Return on Investment = “Buy-and-Hold” + Valuation + Margin of Safety
• Be present above all else.
• Desire is suffering. (Buddha)
• If you can’t see yourself working with someone for life, don’t work with them for ...

• The world just reflects your own feelings back at you.
• Reality is neutral. Reality has no judgments.
• To a tree, there is no concept of right or wrong, good or bad. You’re born, you have a whole set of sensory experiences and stimulations (lights, colors, and sounds), and then...

• Happiness is what’s there when you remove the sense that something is missing in your life.
• Real happiness only comes as a side-effect of peace. Most of it is going to come from acceptance, not from changing your external environment.
• Happiness, love, and pas...

In the grand scheme of things, the Universe has been around for ten billion years. Your life is a firefly blink in a night. You’re here for such a brief period of time. If you fully acknowledge the futility of what you’re doing, then it can bring great happiness and peace because you realize this...

• Truth is that which has predictive power.
• Watch every thought. (Ask “Why am I having this thought?”)
• All greatness comes from suffering.
• Love is given, not received.
• Enlightenment is the space between your thoughts. (Eckhart Tolle)
• Mathematics is the l...

Retirement is when you stop sacrificing today for an imaginary tomorrow.

How do you get there?

1. Have so much money that your passive income covers your burn rate.
2. Drive your burn rate to zero—You become a monk.
3. Doing something you love—You know how to do it better ...

• Lean into things with short-term pain, but long-term gain.
• Read what you love until you love to read.
• It’s not about “educated” vs. “uneducated.” It’s about “likes to read” and “doesn’t like to read.”
• A calm mind, a fit body, and a house full of love. These things can...

• People mistakenly believe happiness is just about positive thoughts and positive actions.

The Tao Te Ching says it’s all duality and polarity.

• If I say I’m happy, that means I was sad at some point.
• Every positive thought even has a seed of a negative thought w...

1. Labor(worst form of leverage): Other humans working for you. Managing other people is incredibly messy, it requires tremendous leadership skills.
2. Money(good form): if you get good at managing capital, you can manage more and more capital much more ea...

• A happy person isn’t someone who’s happy all the time. It’s someone who effortlessly interprets events in such a way that they don’t lose their innate peace.
• I think the most common mistake for humanity is believing you’re going to be made happy because of some external circumstance....

...when you’re thirty, what advice would you give your twenty-year-old self? And when you’re forty, what advice would you give your thirty-year-old self? (Maybe if you’re younger, you can do it by every five years.)