Magic happens.
"You have the right to perform action, but you are not entitled to the fruits of your actions."
"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished."
- Natural Principles
"Serve God through others. See God in others."
"If you're so smart then why aren't you happy?"
"Desire is a contract you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want."
The right things, at least in business, can't be taught, because they are a moving target. Business education can only provide vague principles that inspire people to head in the right direction, but I can't teach you specifically how to make money or trade the stock market.
- Naval Ravikant with Kapil Gupta
One thing I have noticed is that one of the ways in which I know what I am finding truths out is that problem is solved for good. I don't have to revisit the same problem again. Because that problem is solved for good, both my internal state and my external state "improve", they change. ... Internally I am quieter and externally my life is less complicated.
- Naval Ravikant with Kapil Gupta
It is absolutely critical to savagely and surgically arrange one's environment in a way that is in accordance with where he wants to go. ... If a person is exposed to truth on a regular basis then no prescription is gonna be straight truth then that becomes his norm, that becomes the way that he thinks, his brain begins to rewire itself. ... You become what you are most consistently exposed to.
- Kapil Gupta with Naval Ravikant
Real winners are the ones who step out of the game entirely, who don't even play the game, who rise above it. And those are the people who have such internal mental and self-control and self-awareness that they need nothing from anybody else.
"Environment dictates performance."
"You get what you pitch for. You're always pitching. Don't pitch negative things into existence."
"If that would be easy, everyone would do it. If everyone would do it, it wouldn't be valuable."
"Tell me about some of the biggest problems you worked on and how you solved them."
If this doesn't bring you closer to Mars, then drop it.
Signal-to-noice ratio. Focusing is about saying NO.
"Don't Die."
"If stuck: What's one step to take that is so small, it's impossible to fail?"
- Ryan Levesque
Help others to help others.
Seek for assets, not liabilities.
Thoughts are living beings that visit our minds. From them, we choose to suppress or explode in the best possible way.
Anything is possible, and it all starts with a thought, sparking a vision, leading to action, and culminating in a result.