<ul><li>Seek wealth not money or Status - Status and money is zero-sum game but creating wealth is not zero-sum game. Wealth is having assets that make money while you sleep.</li><li>You’ll get rich by giving society what it wants but doesn’t know yet how to get, at scale.</li><li>All the returns in life be it wealth, relationships, knowledge (should) compounds over time.</li><li>Don’t upgrade your lifestyle right after or frequently after increasing income.</li><li></li></ul>

How to get rich?

Self Improvement

<ul><li>Arm yourself with your specific knowledge, accountability and leverage.</li><li>Specific knowledge is generally a highly technical or a creative skill.</li><li>Your specific knowledge will help you to escape competition through authenticity.</li><li>Earn with your mind not time.</li></ul>

Discover your Specific Knowledge.

<ul><li>Value your time by hourly rate, if a work costs more than your hourly rate, outsource it or don’t do it.</li><li>Bigger the creative/non-repetitive component of a work, more the opportunity of the gap between input (efforts/time) and output (returns).</li></ul>

Value your time.

<ul><li>Teaching forces learning.</li><li>If you’re memorizing advanced concepts without being able to re-derive them as needed, you’re lost.</li></ul>

How to learn?

<ul><li>Things to think most about: where to live, with whom to be in relationship with, what job to do.</li><li>Retirement is when you stop sacrificing today for an imaginary future.</li><li>Easy choices, hard life. Hard choices, easy life.</li><li>A metric of good life or freedom: how much of the day is spent doing things out of interest rather than out of obligation.</li><li>Wisdom is understanding the long term consequences of your actions.</li></ul>

How to live life?

<ul><li>Creating more opportunities through hard work and persistence.</li><li>Becoming good at spotting luck like a lucky break or building a unique character/brand when luck/opportunities find you.</li></ul>

How to be lucky?

<ul><li>Happiness is really a default state, happiness is there when you remove the sense of something missing in your life.</li><li>More desires, less happiness if you can’t fulfil them. Choose one big desire in life at any given time to give yourself purpose and motivation.</li><li>The more present you are, the more happy you are.</li><li>Peace is happiness at rest, and happiness is peace in motion. You can convert them anytime you want.</li><li>Try to eliminate as many 'shoulds' in your life, real happiness is when you do everything you want to do not should do.</li><li>The world just reflects your own feelings back at you.</li></ul>

How to be happy?

<ul><li>You don't want peace of mind, you want peach from mind. Remove the mind's chattering and you will get peace.</li><li>Use meditation, exercise and music to reset your mood.</li><li>For every annoyance, build a habit of thinking what is the positive thing about it.</li><li>A busy mind accelerates the passage of subjective time.</li><li>If you don’t want the 100% swap with the person, there is no point in being jealous.</li><li>If you’re evenly split on a difficult decision, take the path more painful in the short term. Short term suffering, long time gain.</li></ul>

How to get peace of mind?

Getting rich is not just about luck; happiness is not just a trait we are born with. These aspirations may seem out of reach, but building wealth and being happy are skills we can learn. So what are these skills, and how do we learn them? What are the principles that should guide our efforts? What does progress really look like? Naval Ravikant is an entrepreneur, philosopher, and investor who has captivated the world with his principles for building wealth and creating long-term happiness. The Almanack of Naval Ravikant is a collection of Naval's wisdom and experience from the last ten years, shared as a curation of his most insightful interviews and poignant reflections. This isn't a how-to book, or a step-by-step gimmick. Instead, through Naval's own words, you will learn how to walk your own unique path toward a happier, wealthier life.

The Almanack of Naval Ravikant

<ul><li>Life isn’t meant to go your way all the time, and that’s okay. It’s okay for life to suck sometimes because that’s part of life.</li></ul>

Okay to be not okay

<ul><li>The desire for more positive experience is a negative experience and the acceptance of negative experience is itself a positive experience.&nbsp;</li><li>The more you pursue feeling better all the time, the less satisfied you become, as pursuing something only reinforces the fact that you lack it in the first place.</li></ul>

Desire for positivity

Maturity is what happens when one learns to only give a f*ck about what’s truly f*ck-worthy.

Know what trully matters for you

Happiness comes from solving problems but problems will never end in life, the goal is to have better and meaningful problems.&nbsp;We need to choose our struggle because that’s inevitable. You are defined by what you’re willing to struggle for.

Choose your struggle

<ul><li>Certainty is the enemy of growth. We never know if something happens for good or bad.&nbsp;</li><li>Uncertainty and curiosity is the root of all progress.</li></ul>

Curiosity is key for growth

<ul><li>The magnitude of your success depends on how many times you failed at something.&nbsp;</li><li>Failing and learning is the only way to grow.</li></ul>

Failure to Success

#1 New York Times Bestseller Over 1 million copies sold In this generation-defining self-help guide, a superstar blogger cuts through the crap to show us how to stop trying to be "positive" all the time so that we can truly become better, happier people. For decades, we’ve been told that positive thinking is the key to a happy, rich life. "F**k positivity," Mark Manson says. "Let’s be honest, shit is f**ked and we have to live with it." In his wildly popular Internet blog, Manson doesn’t sugarcoat or equivocate. He tells it like it is—a dose of raw, refreshing, honest truth that is sorely lacking today. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k is his antidote to the coddling, let’s-all-feel-good mindset that has infected American society and spoiled a generation, rewarding them with gold medals just for showing up. Manson makes the argument, backed both by academic research and well-timed poop jokes, that improving our lives hinges not on our ability to turn lemons into lemonade, but on learning to stomach lemons better. Human beings are flawed and limited—"not everybody can be extraordinary, there are winners and losers in society, and some of it is not fair or your fault." Manson advises us to get to know our limitations and accept them. Once we embrace our fears, faults, and uncertainties, once we stop running and avoiding and start confronting painful truths, we can begin to find the courage, perseverance, honesty, responsibility, curiosity, and forgiveness we seek. There are only so many things we can give a f**k about so we need to figure out which ones really matter, Manson makes clear. While money is nice, caring about what you do with your life is better, because true wealth is about experience. A much-needed grab-you-by-the-shoulders-and-look-you-in-the-eye moment of real-talk, filled with entertaining stories and profane, ruthless humor, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k is a refreshing slap for a generation to help them lead contented, grounded lives.

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck

“Imagining yourself enjoying the new cheese leads you to achieve it.” But don’t only imagine enjoying the cheese only, imagine enjoying the process of getting that too.

Law of attraction

“Sooner you get rid of old cheese, sooner you get new cheese.”Sometimes, success gets in our head and we stop improving ourselves. It's important keep redfining our success to move on from old success and achieve new ones.

Importance of Redefining Success

THE #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER WITH OVER 28 MILLION COPIES IN PRINT! A timeless business classic, Who Moved My Cheese? uses a simple parable to reveal profound truths about dealing with change so that you can enjoy less stress and more success in your work and in your life. It would be all so easy if you had a map to the Maze. If the same old routines worked. If they'd just stop moving "The Cheese." But things keep changing... Most people are fearful of change, both personal and professional, because they don't have any control over how or when it happens to them. Since change happens either to the individual or by the individual, Dr. Spencer Johnson, the coauthor of the multimillion bestseller The One Minute Manager, uses a deceptively simple story to show that when it comes to living in a rapidly changing world, what matters most is your attitude. Exploring a simple way to take the fear and anxiety out of managing the future, Who Moved My Cheese? can help you discover how to anticipate, acknowledge, and accept change in order to have a positive impact on your job, your relationships, and every aspect of your life.

Who Moved My Cheese?

“The fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself" - often the scenarios are not as bad as they are in our mind.

Fear of Suffering

“When every day seems the same, that is because people have stopped noticing the good things that appear in their lives.”

Gratitude and Monotonous Life

"I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present because life is the moment we’re living now." Present moment is all we have, present moment is all that matters.

Living in the Present

“When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”

Life Improvement

“There is only one way to learn. It’s through action. Everything you need to know you will learn through your journey.”

Learning Through Action

A special 25th anniversary edition of the extraordinary international bestseller, including a new Foreword by Paulo Coelho. Combining magic, mysticism, wisdom and wonder into an inspiring tale of self-discovery, The Alchemist has become a modern classic, selling millions of copies around the world and transforming the lives of countless readers across generations. Paulo Coelho's masterpiece tells the mystical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure. His quest will lead him to riches far different—and far more satisfying—than he ever imagined. Santiago's journey teaches us about the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts, of recognizing opportunity and learning to read the omens strewn along life's path, and, most importantly, to follow our dreams.

Arghadip Chakraborty@arghac14