Learn more about philosophy with this collection
Why happiness is the ultimate goal
The importance of creating value
How to create wealth in the modern era
Desire is a contract you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want. We go about desiring things all day long and then wonder why we’re unhappy. Anticipation for our vices pulls us into the future. Eliminating vices makes it easier to be present.
Eliminating our vices is easier than expecting the world to deliver them to us. We think of ourselves as fixed and the world as malleable, but it’s really we who are malleable and the world is largely fixed.
1.64K
4.31K reads
MORE IDEAS ON THIS
Leverage is a force multiplier for your judgment. 3 options:
1.64K
7.4K reads
What is the meaning and purpose of life?
1.53K
3.77K reads
The best jobs are neither decreed nor degreed. They are creative expressions of continuous learners in free markets. The most important skill for getting rich is becoming a perpetual learner. You have to know how to learn anything you want to learn.
It’s mu...
1.86K
11.1K reads
1.76K
6.09K reads
Buddhists look at your brain, your consciousness, as a multilayered mechanism. There’s a core-base, kernel-level OS running. Then, there are applications running on top.
Always go back to the awareness level of OS, which is always calm, always peaceful, and generally happy...
1.53K
3.98K reads
Go with options that excite you, rather than finding reasons for rationalising tasks that don’t. Trust your intuition.
The reason is, modern society is full of options. There are tons and tons of options. We live on a planet of seven billion people, and we are connected to ...
1.73K
4.92K reads
Retirement is when you stop sacrificing today for an imaginary tomorrow. When today is complete, in and of itself, you’re retired. How do you get there?
1.72K
6.35K reads
Specific knowledge cannot be taught, but it can be learned. It’s about what makes you special. Like the things you were effortlessly doing that made people notice you. No one can compete with you on being you. Specific knowledge is found by pursuing your genuine curiosity and pas...
2.13K
13.8K reads
You can convert peace into happiness anytime you want. But peace is what you want most of the time. If you’re a peaceful person, anything you do will be a happy activity.
Today, the way we think you get peace is by resolving all your external problems. But there are unlimited external probl...
1.64K
4.18K reads
90 percent of thoughts are fear-based. The other 10 percent are desire-based.
Try to keep an eye on my internal monologue. It would be like running tour brain in “debugging mode”.
1.54K
4.58K reads
You can only make progress when you’re starting with the truth. The hard thing is seeing the truth. Suffering is the moment when we can no longer deny reality.
Outside of suffering, you have to get your ego out of the way because your ego doesn’t want to face the truth.
1.68K
5.76K reads
Do things for their own sake. Whether it’s business, exercise, romance, friendship the meaning of life is to do things for their own sake.
Anything worth doing comes from trying to overcome boredom. Because you would be doing it for its own sake. Much more ...
1.79K
10.7K reads
The path to success is to find a way to automate your uniqueness. "Productise" is about leverage and "Yourself" is about accountability.
If you’re looking toward getting wealthy, you should ask yourself:
1.77K
19.4K reads
Virtues are trained heuristics that automate decision making. You cannot solve every problem in life as if it is the first time it’s thrown at you.
The classical virtues are all decision-making heuristics to make one optimise for the long term rather than for the short term...
1.45K
5.3K reads
"I never ask if “I like it” or “I don’t like it.” I think “this is what it is” or “this is what it isn’t.”"
1.58K
6.43K reads
Happiness is really a default state. Happiness is there when you remove the sense of something missing in your life. Happiness is the state when nothing is missing. When nothing is missing, your mind shuts down and stops running into the past or future to regret.
It is cult...
1.69K
4.11K reads
If you don’t own a piece of a business, you don’t have a path towards financial freedom.
It’s ownership versus wage work. If you are paid for renting out your time, even lawyers and doctors, you can make some money, but you’re not going to make the money that gives you financial freedom. Y...
1.73K
8.15K reads
1.64K
6.22K reads
"First, you know it.
Then, you understand it.
Then, you can explain it.
Then, you can feel it.
1.85K
6.6K reads
“As you’re going about your daily business (hopefully, there’s some nature) and you’re not talking to anybody else, you practice learning to accept the moment you’re in without making judgments. You don’t think, “Oh, there’s a homeless guy over there, better cross the street” or look at ...
1.52K
3.58K reads
Julius Caesar famously said, “If you want it done, then go. And if not, then send.” What he meant was, if you want it done right, then you have to go yourself and do it. When you are the principal, then you are the owner—you care, and you will do a great job. When you ar...
1.57K
4.36K reads
CURATED FROM
Life-long learner. Passionate about leadership, entrepreneurship, philosophy, Buddhism & SF. Founder @deepstash.
Related collections
More like this
Contracts are very powerful. We humans make contracts with others but we do make contracts with ourselves. Desire is a contract you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want.
But desire is the source of un-happiness. Do your best not to h...
We hate waiting as it breaks the day’s flow, putting us in limbo. This wait mode is what gets to us, as it pulls us to the present moment, which we are trying to avoid most of the time by remaining distracted in the world. This time can be used to unlock the defa...
• When that pleasure-pain balance tilts to the side of pain after the experience of pleasure, we experience feelings of discomfort, restlessness and irritability which can leave us unhappy and wanting to recreate the feeling of pleasure.
• ANY type of addiction makes us mal...
Read & Learn
20x Faster
without
deepstash
with
deepstash
with
deepstash
Access to 200,000+ ideas
—
Access to the mobile app
—
Unlimited idea saving & library
—
—
Unlimited history
—
—
Unlimited listening to ideas
—
—
Downloading & offline access
—
—
Personalized recommendations
—
—
Supercharge your mind with one idea per day
Enter your email and spend 1 minute every day to learn something new.
I agree to receive email updates