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# Quotes from: https://www.notion.so/Quotes-by-Naval-Ravikant-3edaf88cfc914b06a98b58b62b6dc222


dic = [\
 "Read what you love until you love to read.",\

 "True Wisdom Comes From Understanding, Not Memorization.",\

 "Meditation is the art of doing nothing. You cannot do meditation. By definition, if you’re doing something, you’re not in meditation. Meditation is a state you’re in when you’re not doing anything – physically, mentally, or consciously. You’re just making no effort. You’re literally being completely still, physically and mentally, inside and out.",\

 "You’re actually in deep meditation all the time. It’s just covered up by all the noise and all the thoughts and all the emotional things that are running through you. It’s always there underneath.",\

 "Every psychedelic state that people encounter using so-called plant medicines can be arrived at just through pure meditation.",\

 "You can meditate 24/7. Meditation is not a sit-down and close your eyes activity. Meditation is basically watching your own thoughts like you would watch anything else in the outside world and saying, ‘Why am I having that thought? Does that serve me anymore? Is this just conditioning from when I was 10 years?’",\

 "Most smart people, over time, realize that possessions don’t make them happy.",\

 "Anything you wanted in your life – whether it was a car, whether it was a girl, or whether it was money – when you got it, a year later, you were back to zero. Your brain had hedonically adapted to it, and you were looking for the next thing.",\

 "If you’re smart, you should be able to figure out how to be happy. Otherwise, you’re not that smart.",\

 "Just like fitness can be a choice, health can be a choice, nutrition can be a choice, and working hard and making money can be a choice, happiness can be a choice as well.",\

 "Reality is neutral. Reality has no judgments. To a tree, there’s no concept of right or wrong or good or bad. You’re born, you have a whole set of sensory experiences… and then you die. How you choose to interpret that is up to you. And you do have that choice.",\

 "In every moment, in everything that happens, you can look on the bright side of something… There are two ways of seeing almost everything.",\

 "Desire to me is a contract that you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want.",\

 "Pick your one overwhelming desire – it’s okay to suffer over that one. But on all the other desires, let them go so you can be calm and peaceful and relaxed.",\

 "Desire is suffering… every desire you have is an axis where you will suffer. So just don’t focus on more than one desire at a time. The universe is rigged in such a way that if you just want one thing, and you focus on that, you’ll get it, but everything else you gotta let go.",\

 "In today’s day and age, many people think you get peace by resolving all your external problems, but there are unlimited external problems. The only way to actually get peace on the inside is by giving up the idea of having problems.",\

 "To me, peace is happiness at rest, and happiness is peace in motion. You can convert peace to happiness anytime you want.",\

 "A clear mind leads to better judgment and better outcomes. A happy, calm, and peaceful person will make better decisions. So if you want to operate at peak performance, you have to learn how to tame your mind.",\

 "Look at your own experiences; your bliss from success never lasts, nor does your misery from failure."

 "The way to survive in modern society is to be an ascetic; it is to retreat from society."

 "You have society in your phone, society in your pocket, society in your ears… It’s socializing you and programming everyone. The only solution is to turn it off.",\

 "In a first-world society, success and failure is much more about how you control, manage, and break addictions than it is about going out and doing something.",\

 "A lot of what creates unhappiness in modern society is the struggle between what society wants and what the individual wants… Guilt is just society’s voice talking in your head.",\

 "You’re better off following your genuine intellectual curiosity than chasing whatever’s hot right now.",\

 "Retirement is when you stop sacrificing today for some imaginary tomorrow.",\

 "Your real resume is just a cataloging of all your suffering."

 "When you do things for their own sake, that’s when you create your best work. That’s when it’s art.",\

 "The smaller the company you work for, the happier you’ll be."

 "I value freedom above anything else. Freedom to do what I want, freedom from not doing what I don’t want to do, and freedom from my own reactions and emotions…things that may disturb my peace.",\

 "I don’t care how rich you are. I don’t care whether you’re a top Wall Street banker. If somebody has to tell you when to be at work, what to wear and how to behave, you’re not a free person. You’re not actually rich.",\

 "If you have to wear a tie to work, you’re not really free. If you have to be at your desk at a certain time, you’re not free.",\

 "What you do, who you do it with, and how you do it is WAY more important than how hard you work."

 "8 hours of input does not equate to the same output for every single person (your output is based on the quality of work you put in)."

 "You HAVE to know how to learn anything you want to learn. There should be no book in the library that scares you."

 "When you’re reading a book, and you’re not understanding a lot of what it’s saying, and there’s a lot of confusion in your mind about it, that confusion is similar to the burn you get in the gym when you’re working out, except you’re building mental, instead of physical, muscles.",\

 "If you’re a perpetual learning machine, you will never be out of options on how to make money.",\

 "Today in society, you get rewarded for creative work, for creating something brand new that society didn’t even know that it wanted that it doesn’t yet know how to get, other than through you.",\

 "No matter how high your bar is, raise your bar… You can never be working with other people who are great enough. If there’s someone greater out there to work with, you should go work with them.",\

 "Worry about working hard only AFTER you’ve picked the right thing to work on and the right people to work with."

 "Specific knowledge is the stuff that feels like play to you but looks like work to others. It’s found by pursuing your innate talents, your genuine curiosity, and your passion."

 "If you’re not 100% into it, then someone else who is 100% into it will outperform you.",\

 "No one can compete with you on being you.",\

 "Embrace accountability and take business risks under your own name."

 "Busy is the death of productivity.",\

 "You have to get bored before you can get creative… You can’t be creative on schedule.",\

 "I need 4-5 hours of time by myself every day doing NOTHING. Because if I don’t have that time, I won’t be able to do ANYTHING.",\

 "I believe everybody can be wealthy. It’s not a zero-sum game; it’s a positive-sum game.",\

 "People who are living far below their means enjoy a freedom that people busy upgrading their lifestyle just can’t fathom."

 "All the benefits in life come from compound interest, whether in relationships, life, your career, health, or learning."

 "You’re not going to get rich renting out your time. Aim to have a job, career, or profession where your inputs don’t match your output."

 "Successful people have a strong action bias."

 "Productize yourself."

 "Aim to become so good at something, that luck eventually finds you. Over time, it isn’t luck; it’s destiny."

 "The 5 most important skills are reading, writing, arithmetic, persuasion, and computer programming."

 "The number of iterations drives the learning curve."

 "If you’re good with computers, if you’re good at basic math, if you’re good at writing, if you’re good at speaking, and if you like reading, you’re set for life.",\

 "Get comfortable with frequent, small failures."

 "If you’re willing to bleed a little bit every day, but in exchange, you win big later, you’ll be better off."

 "Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true."

 "Reject most advice but remember you have to listen to/read enough of it to know what to reject and what to accept."

 "In entrepreneurship, you just have to be right ONCE. The good news is you can take as many shots on goal as you want."

 "Know that your physical health, mental health, and your relationships will bring you more peace and happiness than any amount of money ever will."

 "It’s good for everybody to realize that at this point in human history, you are basically no longer a citizen of your nation. Wherever you live, whoever you are, you have one foot in the internet. The internet is the real country.",\

 "If all of your beliefs line up into one political party, you’re not a clear thinker. If all your beliefs are the same as your neighbors and your friends, you’re not a clear thinker; your beliefs are taken from other people. If you want to be a clear thinker, you cannot pay attention to politics; it will destroy your ability to think.",\

 "Fair doesn’t exist in the world. If you’re going to obsess over fair, you’ll never get anywhere in life. You basically just have to do the best you can, with the cards you’re dealt.",\

 "Pick three hobbies: One that makes you money, one that makes you fit, and one that keeps you creative.",\

 "A lot of wisdom is just realizing the long-term consequences of your actions. The longer-term you’re willing to look, the wiser you’re going to seem to everybody around you.",\

# """llusion #1: The illusion of meaning
# We’re all going to die, and everything will turn to dust – how can anything have meaning?""",\

"IMHO the three big ones in life are wealth, health, and happiness. We pursue them in that order but their importance is in the reverse."

"You can have the mind or you can have the moment.",\

"Ego is false confidence, self-respect is true confidence."

"No one can compete with you on being you. Most of life is a search for who and what needs you the most."

 "A rational person can find peace by cultivating indifference to things outside of their control.",\

 "Success is the enemy of learning. It can deprive you of the time and the incentive to start over. Beginner’s mind also needs beginner’s time."

 "Escape competition through authenticity.",\

 "The heart decides, the head rationalizes."

 "The fundamental delusion — there is something out there that will make you happy and fulfilled forever.",\

 "All the benefits in life come from compound interest — money, relationships, habits — anything of importance.",\

 "The compound interest from many quick small iterations is greater than the compound interest from a few slow big iterations. Compound interest operates in most intellectual and social domains."

 "Relax. You’ll live longer *and* perform better."

 "Twitter is television for intellectuals."

 "If you can't decide, the answer is No."

 "You don’t get rich by spending your time to save money. You get rich by saving your time to make money."

 "Trade money for time, not time for money. You’re going to run out of time first."

 "Seek wealth, not money or status. Wealth is having assets that earn while you sleep. Money is how we transfer time and wealth. Status is your place in the social hierarchy."

 "Work as hard as you can. Even though who you work with and what you work on are more important than how hard you work.",\

 "It is the mark of a charalatan to explain a simple concept in a complex way.",\

 "Self-image is the prison. Other people are the guards."

 "The greatest superpower is the ability to change yourself."

 "We say 'peace of mind', but really what we want is peace from mind."

 "A fit body, a calm mind, a house full of love. These things cannot be bought — they must be earned.",\

 "Founders run every sprint as if they’re about to lose, but grind out the long race knowing that victory is inevitable."

 "It's never been easier to start a company. It's never been harder to build one."

 "An early exit for your startup is a mirage in the desert. If you thirst for it, it disappears.",\

 "Read what you love until you love to read."

 "Wealth creation is an evolutionarily recent positive-sum game. Status is an old zero-sum game. Those attacking wealth creation are often just seeking status."

 "The reality is life is a single-player game. You’re born alone. You’re going to die alone. All of your interpretations are alone. All your memories are alone. You’re gone in three generations and nobody cares. Before you showed up, nobody cared. It’s all single-player."

 "Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true."

 "In an age of infinite leverage, judgement is the most important skill."

 "Leverage is a force multiplier for your judgement."

 "Once you’ve truly controlled your own fate, for better or for worse, you’ll never let anyone else tell you what to do."

 "You will get rich by giving society what it wants but does not yet know how to get. At scale."

 "People who try to look smart by pointing out obvious exceptions actually signal the opposite.",\

 "The selfish reason to be ethical is that it attracts the other ethical people in the network.",\

 "There are no get rich quick schemes. That’s just someone else getting rich off you.",\

 "Specific knowledge is found by pursuing your genuine curiosity and passion rather than whatever is hot right now."

 "Better to find a new audience than to write for the audience."

 "Learn to sell. Learn to build. If you can do both, you will be unstoppable."

 "A taste of freedom can make you unemployable."

 "Your closest friends are the ones you can have a relationship with about nothing."

 " 'Consensus' is just another way of saying 'average'."

 "Morality and ethics automatically emerge when we realize the long term consequences of our actions.",\

 "The best jobs are neither decreed nor degreed. They are creative expressions of continuous learners in free markets."

 "The skills you really want can’t be taught, but they can be learned."

 "Building technology means you don’t have to choose between practicing science, commerce, and art."

 "Twitter is a much better resumé than LinkedIn."

 "It is the mark of a charlatan to explain a simple concept in a complex way.",\

 "Free education is abundant, all over the internet. It’s the desire to learn that’s scarce.",\

 "The internet is the best school ever created. The best peers are on the Internet. The best books are on the Internet. The best teachers are on the Internet. The tools for learning are abundant. It’s the desire to learn that’s scarce."

 "Teaching is more a way for the teacher to learn than for the student to learn."

 "A busy mind accelerates the passage of subjective time."

 "All the value in life, including in relationships, comes from compound interest."

 "The first rule of handling conflict is don't hang around with people who are constantly engaging in conflict."

 "If you want to be successful, surround yourself with people who are more successful than you are, but if you want to be happy, surround yourself with people who are less successful than you are."

 "Pick an industry where you can play long term games with long term people."

 "The most important trick to be happy is to realize that happiness is a choice that you make and a skill set that you develop. You choose to be happy, and then you work at it. It's just like building muscles."

 "Don’t do things that you know are morally wrong. Not because someone is watching, but because you are. Self-esteem is just the reputation that you have with yourself. You’ll always know."

 "If you create intersections, you’re going to have collisions."

 "The right to debate should not be up for debate."

 "Knowledge is discovered by all of us, each adding to the whole. Wisdom is rediscovered by each of us, one at a time."

 "My 1 repeated learning in life: 'There Are No Adults' Everyone's making it up as they go along. Figure it out yourself, and do it."

 "Making money through an early lucky trade is the worst way to win. The bad habits that it reinforces will lead to a lifetime of losses."

 "Forty hour workweeks are a relic of the Industrial Age. Knowledge workers function like athletes — train and sprint, then rest and reassess.",\

 "Information is everywhere but its meaning is created by the observer that interprets it. Meaning is relative and there is no objective, over-arching meaning.",\

 "If you’re more passionate about founding a business than the business itself, you can fall into a ten year trap. Better to stay emotionally unattached and select the best opportunity that arises. Applies to relationships too.",\

 "Smart money is just dumb money that’s been through a crash.",\

 "The secret to public speaking is to speak as if you were alone.",\

 "Notifications are just alarm clocks that someone else is setting for you."

 "The best way, perhaps the only way, to change others is to become an example."

 "Sophisticated foods are bittersweet (wine, beer, coffee, chocolate). Addictive relationships are cooperative and competitive. Work becomes flow at the limits of ability. The flavor of life is on the edge.",\

 "I think the best way to prepare for the future 20 years is find something you love to do, to have a shot at being one of the best people in the world at it. Build an independent brand around it, with your name."

 "Technology is not only the thing that moves the human race forward, but it’s the only thing that ever has. Without technology, we’re just monkeys playing in the dirt.",\

 "Success is the enemy of learning. It can deprive you of the time and the incentive to start over. Beginner’s mind also needs beginner’s time.",\

 "Don’t debate people in the media when you can debate them in the marketplace.",\

 "Twitter is a way to broadcast messages to hundreds of millions of people to find the few dozen that you actually want to talk to."

 "A contrarian isn’t one who always objects — that’s a confirmist of a different sort. A contrarian reasons independently, from the ground up, and resists pressure to conform.",\

 "The real struggle isn’t proletariat vs bourgeois. It’s between high-status elites and wealthy elites. When their cooperation breaks, revolution.",\

 "Branding requires accountability. To build a great personal brand (an eponymous one), you must take on the risk of being publicly wrong.",\

 "If you're going to pick 3 cards in the hand you're dealt, take intelligence, drive, and most importantly, emotional self-discipline."

 "Before you can lie to another, you must first lie to yourself.",\

 "The tools for learning are abundant. It’s the desire to learn that’s scarce.",\

 "This is such a short and precious life that it’s really important that you don’t spend it being unhappy.",\

 "You make your own luck if you stay at it long enough.",\

 "The power to make and break habits and learning how to do that is really important.",\

 "Happiness is a choice and a skill and you can dedicate yourself to learning that skill and making that choice.",\

 "We’re not really here for that long and we don’t really matter that much. And nothing that we do lasts. So eventually you will fade. Your works will fade. Your children will fade. Your thoughts will fade. This planet will fade. The sun will fade. It will all be gone.",\

 "The first rule of handling conflict is don’t hang around people who are constantly engaging in conflict.",\

 "The problem happens when we have multiple desires. When we have fuzzy desires. When we want to do ten different things and we’re not clear about which is the one we care about.",\

 "People spend too much time doing and not enough time thinking about what they should be doing.",\

 "The people who succeed are irrationally passionate about something.",\

 "I don’t plan. I’m not a planner. I prefer to live in the moment and be free and to flow and to be happy.",\

 "If you see a get rich quick scheme, that’s someone else trying to get rich off of you.",\

 "If you try to micromanage yourself all you’re going to do is make yourself miserable.",\

 "Social media has degenerated into a deafening cacophony of groups signaling and repeating their shared myths.",\

 "If it entertains you now but will bore you someday, it’s a distraction. Keep looking.",\

 "If the primary purpose of school was education, the Internet should obsolete it. But school is mainly about credentialing.",\

 "Desire is a contract that you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want.",\

 "Technology is applied science. Science is the study of nature. Mathematics is the language of nature. Philosophy is the root of mathematics. All tightly interrelated.",\

 "Be present above all else.",\

 "Who you do business with is just as important as what you choose to do.",\

 "If you can’t see yourself working with someone for life, don’t work with them for a day.",\

 "Time is the ultimate currency and I should have been more tight fisted with it."

 "Impatience is a virtue. Self-discipline is another form of self conflict. Find things that excite you."

 "Earn with your mind, not your time.",\

 "Humans are basically habit machines… I think learning how to break habits is actually a very important meta skill and can serve you in life almost better than anything else.",\

 "The older the problem, the older the solution.",\

 "Humans aren’t evolved to worry about everything happening outside of their immediate environment."

 "It’s the mark of a charlatan to try and explain simple things in complex ways and it’s the mark of a genius to explain complicated things in simple ways.",\

 "The Efficient Markets Hypothesis fails because humans are herd animals, not independent rational actors. Thus the best investors tend to be antisocial and contrarian.",\

 "You’re never going to get rich renting out your time.",\

 "Lots of literacy in modern society, but not enough numeracy.",\

 "Above 'product-market fit', is 'founder-product-market fit'.",\

 "Good copy is a poor substitute for good UI. Good marketing is a poor substitute for a good product."

 "Software is gnawing on Venture Capital."

 "Society has had multiple stores of value, as none is perfectly secure. Gold, oil, dollars, real estate, (some) bonds & equities. Crypto is the first that’s decentralized *and* digital.",\

 "Crypto is a bet against the modern macroeconomic dogma, which is passed off as science, but is really a branch of politics — with rulers, winners, and losers.",\

 "The overeducated are worse off than the undereducated, having traded common sense for the illusion of knowledge."

 "Trade money for time, not time for money. You’re going to run out of time first."

 "School, politics, sports, and games train us to compete against others. True rewards - wealth, knowledge, love, fitness, and equanimity - come from ignoring others and improving ourselves."

 "If you eat, invest, and think according to what the ‘news’ advocates, you’ll end up nutritionally, financially and morally bankrupt.",\

 "If you’re more passionate about founding a business than the business itself, you can fall into a ten year trap. Better to stay emotionally unattached and select the best opportunity that arises."

 "Making money through an early lucky trade is the worst way to win. The bad habits that it reinforces will lead to a lifetime of losses."

 "Your goal in life is to find out the people who need you the most, to find out the business that needs you the most, to find the project and the art that needs you the most. There is something out there just for you.",\

 "Yoga cultivates Peace of Body. Meditation cultivates Peace of Mind."

 "Judgement requires experience, but can be built faster by learning foundational skills."

 "Tell your friends that you're a happy person. Then you'll be forced to conform to it. You'll have a consistency bias. You have to live up to it. Your friends will expect you to be a happy person."

 "Clear thinkers appeal to their own authority.",\

 "Think clearly from the ground up. Understand and explain from first principles. Ignore society and politics. Acknowledge what you have. Control your emotions.",\

 "Cynicism is easy. Mimicry is easy. Optimistic contrarians are the rarest breed.",\

 "If they can train you to do it, then eventually they will train a computer to do it.",\

 "A great goal in life would be to not have to be in a given place at a given time... Being accountable for your output rather than your input. I would love to be paid purely for my judgment.",\

 "If you’re desensitized to the fact that you’re going to die, consider it a different way. As far as you’re concerned, this world is going to end. Now what?",\

 "Following your genuine intellectual curiosity is a better foundation for a career than following whatever is making money right now.",\

 "Objectively, the world is improving. To the elites, it’s falling apart as their long-lived institutions are flattened by the Internet.",\

 "One of the most damaging and widespread social beliefs is the idea that most adults are incapable of learning new skills.",\

 "A personal metric: how much of the day is spent doing things out of obligation rather than out of interest?",\

 "Caught in a funk? Use meditation, music, and exercise to reset your mood. Then choose a new path to commit emotional energy for rest of day.",\

 "To be honest, speak without identity.",\

 "A rational person can find peace by cultivating indifference to things outside of their control.",\

 "Politics is sports writ large — pick a side, rally the tribe, exchange stories confirming bias, hurl insults and threats at the other side.",\

 "People who live far below their means enjoy a freedom that people busy upgrading their lifestyles can’t fathom.",\

 "We feel guilt when we no longer want to associate with old friends and colleagues who haven’t changed. The price, and marker, of growth.",\

 "The most important trick to be happy is to realize that happiness is a choice that you make and a skill that you develop. You choose to be happy, and then you work at it. It’s just like building muscles.",\

 "Don’t do things that you know are morally wrong. Not because someone is watching, but because you are. Self-esteem is just the reputation that you have with yourself.",\

 "Anger is a hot coal that you hold in your hand while waiting to throw it at someone else. (Buddhist saying)",

 "All the real benefits of life come from compound interest.",\

 "Total honesty at all times. It’s almost always possible to be honest & positive.",\

 "Truth is that which has predictive power.",\

 "Watch every thought. Always ask, why am I having this thought?",\

 "All greatness comes from suffering.",\

 "Love is given, not received.",\

 "Enlightenment is the space between your thoughts.",\

 "Mathematics is the language of nature.",\

 "Every moment has to be complete in and of itself.",\

 "So I have no time for short-term things: dinners with people I won’t see again, tedious ceremonies to please tedious people, traveling to places that I wouldn’t go to on vacation.",\

 "You can change it, you can accept it, or you can leave it. What is not a good option is to sit around wishing you would change it but not changing it, wishing you would leave it but not leaving it, and not accepting it. It’s that struggle, that aversion, that is responsible for most of our misery. The phrase that I use the most to myself in my head is one word: accept.",\

 "I don’t have time is just saying it’s not a priority.",\

 "Happiness is a state where nothing is missing.",\

 "If you don’t love yourself who will?",\

 "If being ethical were profitable everybody would do it.",\

 "Someone who is using a lot of fancy words and big concepts probably doesn’t know what they’re talking about. The smartest people can explain things to a child; if you can’t do that, you don’t understand the concept.",\

 "School, politics, sports, and games train us to compete against others. True rewards — wealth, knowledge, love, fitness, and equanimity — come from ignoring others and improving ourselves.",\

 "Signaling virtue is a vice.",\

 "Investing favors the dispassionate. Markets efficiently separate emotional investors from their money.",\

 "Reality is neutral. Our reactions reflect back and create our world. Judge, and feel separate and lonely. Anger, and lose peace of mind. Cling, and live in anxiety. Fantasize, and miss the present. Desire, and suffer until you have it. Heaven and hell are right here, right now.",\

 "Knowledge is a skyscraper. You can take a shortcut with a fragile foundation of memorization, or build slowly upon a steel frame of understanding.",\

 "A busy mind accelerates the perceived passage of time. Buy more time by cultivating peace of mind.",\

 "Politics is the exercise of power without merit.",\

 "Politics and merit are opposite ends of a spectrum. More political organizations are less productive, have less inequality, and top performers opt out. More merit based organizations have higher productivity, more inequality, and higher odds of internal fracture.",\

# "Doctors won’t make you healthy.\nNutritionists won’t make you slim.\nTeachers won’t make you smart.\nGurus won’t make you calm.\nMentors won’t make you rich.\nTrainers won’t make you fit.\nUltimately, you have to take responsibility. Save yourself.",\

 "You have to surrender, at least a little bit, to be the best version of yourself possible.",\
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# Quotes from: https://www.notion.so/Quotes-by-Naval-Ravikant-3edaf88cfc914b06a98b58b62b6dc222


dic = [\
 "Read what you love until you love to read.",\

 "True Wisdom Comes From Understanding, Not Memorization.",\

 "Meditation is the art of doing nothing. You cannot do meditation. By definition, if you’re doing something, you’re not in meditation. Meditation is a state you’re in when you’re not doing anything – physically, mentally, or consciously. You’re just making no effort. You’re literally being completely still, physically and mentally, inside and out.",\

 "You’re actually in deep meditation all the time. It’s just covered up by all the noise and all the thoughts and all the emotional things that are running through you. It’s always there underneath.",\

 "Every psychedelic state that people encounter using so-called plant medicines can be arrived at just through pure meditation.",\

 "You can meditate 24/7. Meditation is not a sit-down and close your eyes activity. Meditation is basically watching your own thoughts like you would watch anything else in the outside world and saying, ‘Why am I having that thought? Does that serve me anymore? Is this just conditioning from when I was 10 years?’",\

 "Most smart people, over time, realize that possessions don’t make them happy.",\

 "Anything you wanted in your life – whether it was a car, whether it was a girl, or whether it was money – when you got it, a year later, you were back to zero. Your brain had hedonically adapted to it, and you were looking for the next thing.",\

 "If you’re smart, you should be able to figure out how to be happy. Otherwise, you’re not that smart.",\

 "Just like fitness can be a choice, health can be a choice, nutrition can be a choice, and working hard and making money can be a choice, happiness can be a choice as well.",\

 "Reality is neutral. Reality has no judgments. To a tree, there’s no concept of right or wrong or good or bad. You’re born, you have a whole set of sensory experiences… and then you die. How you choose to interpret that is up to you. And you do have that choice.",\

 "In every moment, in everything that happens, you can look on the bright side of something… There are two ways of seeing almost everything.",\

 "Desire to me is a contract that you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want.",\

 "Pick your one overwhelming desire – it’s okay to suffer over that one. But on all the other desires, let them go so you can be calm and peaceful and relaxed.",\

 "Desire is suffering… every desire you have is an axis where you will suffer. So just don’t focus on more than one desire at a time. The universe is rigged in such a way that if you just want one thing, and you focus on that, you’ll get it, but everything else you gotta let go.",\

 "In today’s day and age, many people think you get peace by resolving all your external problems, but there are unlimited external problems. The only way to actually get peace on the inside is by giving up the idea of having problems.",\

 "To me, peace is happiness at rest, and happiness is peace in motion. You can convert peace to happiness anytime you want.",\

 "A clear mind leads to better judgment and better outcomes. A happy, calm, and peaceful person will make better decisions. So if you want to operate at peak performance, you have to learn how to tame your mind.",\

 "Look at your own experiences; your bliss from success never lasts, nor does your misery from failure."

 "The way to survive in modern society is to be an ascetic; it is to retreat from society."

 "You have society in your phone, society in your pocket, society in your ears… It’s socializing you and programming everyone. The only solution is to turn it off.",\

 "In a first-world society, success and failure is much more about how you control, manage, and break addictions than it is about going out and doing something.",\

 "A lot of what creates unhappiness in modern society is the struggle between what society wants and what the individual wants… Guilt is just society’s voice talking in your head.",\

 "You’re better off following your genuine intellectual curiosity than chasing whatever’s hot right now.",\

 "Retirement is when you stop sacrificing today for some imaginary tomorrow.",\

 "Your real resume is just a cataloging of all your suffering."

 "When you do things for their own sake, that’s when you create your best work. That’s when it’s art.",\

 "The smaller the company you work for, the happier you’ll be."

 "I value freedom above anything else. Freedom to do what I want, freedom from not doing what I don’t want to do, and freedom from my own reactions and emotions…things that may disturb my peace.",\

 "I don’t care how rich you are. I don’t care whether you’re a top Wall Street banker. If somebody has to tell you when to be at work, what to wear and how to behave, you’re not a free person. You’re not actually rich.",\

 "If you have to wear a tie to work, you’re not really free. If you have to be at your desk at a certain time, you’re not free.",\

 "What you do, who you do it with, and how you do it is WAY more important than how hard you work."

 "8 hours of input does not equate to the same output for every single person (your output is based on the quality of work you put in)."

 "You HAVE to know how to learn anything you want to learn. There should be no book in the library that scares you."

 "When you’re reading a book, and you’re not understanding a lot of what it’s saying, and there’s a lot of confusion in your mind about it, that confusion is similar to the burn you get in the gym when you’re working out, except you’re building mental, instead of physical, muscles.",\

 "If you’re a perpetual learning machine, you will never be out of options on how to make money.",\

 "Today in society, you get rewarded for creative work, for creating something brand new that society didn’t even know that it wanted that it doesn’t yet know how to get, other than through you.",\

 "No matter how high your bar is, raise your bar… You can never be working with other people who are great enough. If there’s someone greater out there to work with, you should go work with them.",\

 "Worry about working hard only AFTER you’ve picked the right thing to work on and the right people to work with."

 "Specific knowledge is the stuff that feels like play to you but looks like work to others. It’s found by pursuing your innate talents, your genuine curiosity, and your passion."

 "If you’re not 100% into it, then someone else who is 100% into it will outperform you.",\

 "No one can compete with you on being you.",\

 "Embrace accountability and take business risks under your own name."

 "Busy is the death of productivity.",\

 "You have to get bored before you can get creative… You can’t be creative on schedule.",\

 "I need 4-5 hours of time by myself every day doing NOTHING. Because if I don’t have that time, I won’t be able to do ANYTHING.",\

 "I believe everybody can be wealthy. It’s not a zero-sum game; it’s a positive-sum game.",\

 "People who are living far below their means enjoy a freedom that people busy upgrading their lifestyle just can’t fathom."

 "All the benefits in life come from compound interest, whether in relationships, life, your career, health, or learning."

 "You’re not going to get rich renting out your time. Aim to have a job, career, or profession where your inputs don’t match your output."

 "Successful people have a strong action bias."

 "Productize yourself."

 "Aim to become so good at something, that luck eventually finds you. Over time, it isn’t luck; it’s destiny."

 "The 5 most important skills are reading, writing, arithmetic, persuasion, and computer programming."

 "The number of iterations drives the learning curve."

 "If you’re good with computers, if you’re good at basic math, if you’re good at writing, if you’re good at speaking, and if you like reading, you’re set for life.",\

 "Get comfortable with frequent, small failures."

 "If you’re willing to bleed a little bit every day, but in exchange, you win big later, you’ll be better off."

 "Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true."

 "Reject most advice but remember you have to listen to/read enough of it to know what to reject and what to accept."

 "In entrepreneurship, you just have to be right ONCE. The good news is you can take as many shots on goal as you want."

 "Know that your physical health, mental health, and your relationships will bring you more peace and happiness than any amount of money ever will."

 "It’s good for everybody to realize that at this point in human history, you are basically no longer a citizen of your nation. Wherever you live, whoever you are, you have one foot in the internet. The internet is the real country.",\

 "If all of your beliefs line up into one political party, you’re not a clear thinker. If all your beliefs are the same as your neighbors and your friends, you’re not a clear thinker; your beliefs are taken from other people. If you want to be a clear thinker, you cannot pay attention to politics; it will destroy your ability to think.",\

 "Fair doesn’t exist in the world. If you’re going to obsess over fair, you’ll never get anywhere in life. You basically just have to do the best you can, with the cards you’re dealt.",\

 "Pick three hobbies: One that makes you money, one that makes you fit, and one that keeps you creative.",\

 "A lot of wisdom is just realizing the long-term consequences of your actions. The longer-term you’re willing to look, the wiser you’re going to seem to everybody around you.",\

# """llusion #1: The illusion of meaning
# We’re all going to die, and everything will turn to dust – how can anything have meaning?""",\

"IMHO the three big ones in life are wealth, health, and happiness. We pursue them in that order but their importance is in the reverse."

"You can have the mind or you can have the moment.",\

"Ego is false confidence, self-respect is true confidence."

"No one can compete with you on being you. Most of life is a search for who and what needs you the most."

 "A rational person can find peace by cultivating indifference to things outside of their control.",\

 "Success is the enemy of learning. It can deprive you of the time and the incentive to start over. Beginner’s mind also needs beginner’s time."

 "Escape competition through authenticity.",\

 "The heart decides, the head rationalizes."

 "The fundamental delusion — there is something out there that will make you happy and fulfilled forever.",\

 "All the benefits in life come from compound interest — money, relationships, habits — anything of importance.",\

 "The compound interest from many quick small iterations is greater than the compound interest from a few slow big iterations. Compound interest operates in most intellectual and social domains."

 "Relax. You’ll live longer *and* perform better."

 "Twitter is television for intellectuals."

 "If you can't decide, the answer is No."

 "You don’t get rich by spending your time to save money. You get rich by saving your time to make money."

 "Trade money for time, not time for money. You’re going to run out of time first."

 "Seek wealth, not money or status. Wealth is having assets that earn while you sleep. Money is how we transfer time and wealth. Status is your place in the social hierarchy."

 "Work as hard as you can. Even though who you work with and what you work on are more important than how hard you work.",\

 "It is the mark of a charalatan to explain a simple concept in a complex way.",\

 "Self-image is the prison. Other people are the guards."

 "The greatest superpower is the ability to change yourself."

 "We say 'peace of mind', but really what we want is peace from mind."

 "A fit body, a calm mind, a house full of love. These things cannot be bought — they must be earned.",\

 "Founders run every sprint as if they’re about to lose, but grind out the long race knowing that victory is inevitable."

 "It's never been easier to start a company. It's never been harder to build one."

 "An early exit for your startup is a mirage in the desert. If you thirst for it, it disappears.",\

 "Read what you love until you love to read."

 "Wealth creation is an evolutionarily recent positive-sum game. Status is an old zero-sum game. Those attacking wealth creation are often just seeking status."

 "The reality is life is a single-player game. You’re born alone. You’re going to die alone. All of your interpretations are alone. All your memories are alone. You’re gone in three generations and nobody cares. Before you showed up, nobody cared. It’s all single-player."

 "Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true."

 "In an age of infinite leverage, judgement is the most important skill."

 "Leverage is a force multiplier for your judgement."

 "Once you’ve truly controlled your own fate, for better or for worse, you’ll never let anyone else tell you what to do."

 "You will get rich by giving society what it wants but does not yet know how to get. At scale."

 "People who try to look smart by pointing out obvious exceptions actually signal the opposite.",\

 "The selfish reason to be ethical is that it attracts the other ethical people in the network.",\

 "There are no get rich quick schemes. That’s just someone else getting rich off you.",\

 "Specific knowledge is found by pursuing your genuine curiosity and passion rather than whatever is hot right now."

 "Better to find a new audience than to write for the audience."

 "Learn to sell. Learn to build. If you can do both, you will be unstoppable."

 "A taste of freedom can make you unemployable."

 "Your closest friends are the ones you can have a relationship with about nothing."

 " 'Consensus' is just another way of saying 'average'."

 "Morality and ethics automatically emerge when we realize the long term consequences of our actions.",\

 "The best jobs are neither decreed nor degreed. They are creative expressions of continuous learners in free markets."

 "The skills you really want can’t be taught, but they can be learned."

 "Building technology means you don’t have to choose between practicing science, commerce, and art."

 "Twitter is a much better resumé than LinkedIn."

 "It is the mark of a charlatan to explain a simple concept in a complex way.",\

 "Free education is abundant, all over the internet. It’s the desire to learn that’s scarce.",\

 "The internet is the best school ever created. The best peers are on the Internet. The best books are on the Internet. The best teachers are on the Internet. The tools for learning are abundant. It’s the desire to learn that’s scarce."

 "Teaching is more a way for the teacher to learn than for the student to learn."

 "A busy mind accelerates the passage of subjective time."

 "All the value in life, including in relationships, comes from compound interest."

 "The first rule of handling conflict is don't hang around with people who are constantly engaging in conflict."

 "If you want to be successful, surround yourself with people who are more successful than you are, but if you want to be happy, surround yourself with people who are less successful than you are."

 "Pick an industry where you can play long term games with long term people."

 "The most important trick to be happy is to realize that happiness is a choice that you make and a skill set that you develop. You choose to be happy, and then you work at it. It's just like building muscles."

 "Don’t do things that you know are morally wrong. Not because someone is watching, but because you are. Self-esteem is just the reputation that you have with yourself. You’ll always know."

 "If you create intersections, you’re going to have collisions."

 "The right to debate should not be up for debate."

 "Knowledge is discovered by all of us, each adding to the whole. Wisdom is rediscovered by each of us, one at a time."

 "My 1 repeated learning in life: 'There Are No Adults' Everyone's making it up as they go along. Figure it out yourself, and do it."

 "Making money through an early lucky trade is the worst way to win. The bad habits that it reinforces will lead to a lifetime of losses."

 "Forty hour workweeks are a relic of the Industrial Age. Knowledge workers function like athletes — train and sprint, then rest and reassess.",\

 "Information is everywhere but its meaning is created by the observer that interprets it. Meaning is relative and there is no objective, over-arching meaning.",\

 "If you’re more passionate about founding a business than the business itself, you can fall into a ten year trap. Better to stay emotionally unattached and select the best opportunity that arises. Applies to relationships too.",\

 "Smart money is just dumb money that’s been through a crash.",\

 "The secret to public speaking is to speak as if you were alone.",\

 "Notifications are just alarm clocks that someone else is setting for you."

 "The best way, perhaps the only way, to change others is to become an example."

 "Sophisticated foods are bittersweet (wine, beer, coffee, chocolate). Addictive relationships are cooperative and competitive. Work becomes flow at the limits of ability. The flavor of life is on the edge.",\

 "I think the best way to prepare for the future 20 years is find something you love to do, to have a shot at being one of the best people in the world at it. Build an independent brand around it, with your name."

 "Technology is not only the thing that moves the human race forward, but it’s the only thing that ever has. Without technology, we’re just monkeys playing in the dirt.",\

 "Success is the enemy of learning. It can deprive you of the time and the incentive to start over. Beginner’s mind also needs beginner’s time.",\

 "Don’t debate people in the media when you can debate them in the marketplace.",\

 "Twitter is a way to broadcast messages to hundreds of millions of people to find the few dozen that you actually want to talk to."

 "A contrarian isn’t one who always objects — that’s a confirmist of a different sort. A contrarian reasons independently, from the ground up, and resists pressure to conform.",\

 "The real struggle isn’t proletariat vs bourgeois. It’s between high-status elites and wealthy elites. When their cooperation breaks, revolution.",\

 "Branding requires accountability. To build a great personal brand (an eponymous one), you must take on the risk of being publicly wrong.",\

 "If you're going to pick 3 cards in the hand you're dealt, take intelligence, drive, and most importantly, emotional self-discipline."

 "Before you can lie to another, you must first lie to yourself.",\

 "The tools for learning are abundant. It’s the desire to learn that’s scarce.",\

 "This is such a short and precious life that it’s really important that you don’t spend it being unhappy.",\

 "You make your own luck if you stay at it long enough.",\

 "The power to make and break habits and learning how to do that is really important.",\

 "Happiness is a choice and a skill and you can dedicate yourself to learning that skill and making that choice.",\

 "We’re not really here for that long and we don’t really matter that much. And nothing that we do lasts. So eventually you will fade. Your works will fade. Your children will fade. Your thoughts will fade. This planet will fade. The sun will fade. It will all be gone.",\

 "The first rule of handling conflict is don’t hang around people who are constantly engaging in conflict.",\

 "The problem happens when we have multiple desires. When we have fuzzy desires. When we want to do ten different things and we’re not clear about which is the one we care about.",\

 "People spend too much time doing and not enough time thinking about what they should be doing.",\

 "The people who succeed are irrationally passionate about something.",\

 "I don’t plan. I’m not a planner. I prefer to live in the moment and be free and to flow and to be happy.",\

 "If you see a get rich quick scheme, that’s someone else trying to get rich off of you.",\

 "If you try to micromanage yourself all you’re going to do is make yourself miserable.",\

 "Social media has degenerated into a deafening cacophony of groups signaling and repeating their shared myths.",\

 "If it entertains you now but will bore you someday, it’s a distraction. Keep looking.",\

 "If the primary purpose of school was education, the Internet should obsolete it. But school is mainly about credentialing.",\

 "Desire is a contract that you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want.",\

 "Technology is applied science. Science is the study of nature. Mathematics is the language of nature. Philosophy is the root of mathematics. All tightly interrelated.",\

 "Be present above all else.",\

 "Who you do business with is just as important as what you choose to do.",\

 "If you can’t see yourself working with someone for life, don’t work with them for a day.",\

 "Time is the ultimate currency and I should have been more tight fisted with it."

 "Impatience is a virtue. Self-discipline is another form of self conflict. Find things that excite you."

 "Earn with your mind, not your time.",\

 "Humans are basically habit machines… I think learning how to break habits is actually a very important meta skill and can serve you in life almost better than anything else.",\

 "The older the problem, the older the solution.",\

 "Humans aren’t evolved to worry about everything happening outside of their immediate environment."

 "It’s the mark of a charlatan to try and explain simple things in complex ways and it’s the mark of a genius to explain complicated things in simple ways.",\

 "The Efficient Markets Hypothesis fails because humans are herd animals, not independent rational actors. Thus the best investors tend to be antisocial and contrarian.",\

 "You’re never going to get rich renting out your time.",\

 "Lots of literacy in modern society, but not enough numeracy.",\

 "Above 'product-market fit', is 'founder-product-market fit'.",\

 "Good copy is a poor substitute for good UI. Good marketing is a poor substitute for a good product."

 "Software is gnawing on Venture Capital."

 "Society has had multiple stores of value, as none is perfectly secure. Gold, oil, dollars, real estate, (some) bonds & equities. Crypto is the first that’s decentralized *and* digital.",\

 "Crypto is a bet against the modern macroeconomic dogma, which is passed off as science, but is really a branch of politics — with rulers, winners, and losers.",\

 "The overeducated are worse off than the undereducated, having traded common sense for the illusion of knowledge."

 "Trade money for time, not time for money. You’re going to run out of time first."

 "School, politics, sports, and games train us to compete against others. True rewards - wealth, knowledge, love, fitness, and equanimity - come from ignoring others and improving ourselves."

 "If you eat, invest, and think according to what the ‘news’ advocates, you’ll end up nutritionally, financially and morally bankrupt.",\

 "If you’re more passionate about founding a business than the business itself, you can fall into a ten year trap. Better to stay emotionally unattached and select the best opportunity that arises."

 "Making money through an early lucky trade is the worst way to win. The bad habits that it reinforces will lead to a lifetime of losses."

 "Your goal in life is to find out the people who need you the most, to find out the business that needs you the most, to find the project and the art that needs you the most. There is something out there just for you.",\

 "Yoga cultivates Peace of Body. Meditation cultivates Peace of Mind."

 "Judgement requires experience, but can be built faster by learning foundational skills."

 "Tell your friends that you're a happy person. Then you'll be forced to conform to it. You'll have a consistency bias. You have to live up to it. Your friends will expect you to be a happy person."

 "Clear thinkers appeal to their own authority.",\

 "Think clearly from the ground up. Understand and explain from first principles. Ignore society and politics. Acknowledge what you have. Control your emotions.",\

 "Cynicism is easy. Mimicry is easy. Optimistic contrarians are the rarest breed.",\

 "If they can train you to do it, then eventually they will train a computer to do it.",\

 "A great goal in life would be to not have to be in a given place at a given time... Being accountable for your output rather than your input. I would love to be paid purely for my judgment.",\

 "If you’re desensitized to the fact that you’re going to die, consider it a different way. As far as you’re concerned, this world is going to end. Now what?",\

 "Following your genuine intellectual curiosity is a better foundation for a career than following whatever is making money right now.",\

 "Objectively, the world is improving. To the elites, it’s falling apart as their long-lived institutions are flattened by the Internet.",\

 "One of the most damaging and widespread social beliefs is the idea that most adults are incapable of learning new skills.",\

 "A personal metric: how much of the day is spent doing things out of obligation rather than out of interest?",\

 "Caught in a funk? Use meditation, music, and exercise to reset your mood. Then choose a new path to commit emotional energy for rest of day.",\

 "To be honest, speak without identity.",\

 "A rational person can find peace by cultivating indifference to things outside of their control.",\

 "Politics is sports writ large — pick a side, rally the tribe, exchange stories confirming bias, hurl insults and threats at the other side.",\

 "People who live far below their means enjoy a freedom that people busy upgrading their lifestyles can’t fathom.",\

 "We feel guilt when we no longer want to associate with old friends and colleagues who haven’t changed. The price, and marker, of growth.",\

 "The most important trick to be happy is to realize that happiness is a choice that you make and a skill that you develop. You choose to be happy, and then you work at it. It’s just like building muscles.",\

 "Don’t do things that you know are morally wrong. Not because someone is watching, but because you are. Self-esteem is just the reputation that you have with yourself.",\

 "Anger is a hot coal that you hold in your hand while waiting to throw it at someone else. (Buddhist saying)",

 "All the real benefits of life come from compound interest.",\

 "Total honesty at all times. It’s almost always possible to be honest & positive.",\

 "Truth is that which has predictive power.",\

 "Watch every thought. Always ask, why am I having this thought?",\

 "All greatness comes from suffering.",\

 "Love is given, not received.",\

 "Enlightenment is the space between your thoughts.",\

 "Mathematics is the language of nature.",\

 "Every moment has to be complete in and of itself.",\

 "So I have no time for short-term things: dinners with people I won’t see again, tedious ceremonies to please tedious people, traveling to places that I wouldn’t go to on vacation.",\

 "You can change it, you can accept it, or you can leave it. What is not a good option is to sit around wishing you would change it but not changing it, wishing you would leave it but not leaving it, and not accepting it. It’s that struggle, that aversion, that is responsible for most of our misery. The phrase that I use the most to myself in my head is one word: accept.",\

 "I don’t have time is just saying it’s not a priority.",\

 "Happiness is a state where nothing is missing.",\

 "If you don’t love yourself who will?",\

 "If being ethical were profitable everybody would do it.",\

 "Someone who is using a lot of fancy words and big concepts probably doesn’t know what they’re talking about. The smartest people can explain things to a child; if you can’t do that, you don’t understand the concept.",\

 "School, politics, sports, and games train us to compete against others. True rewards — wealth, knowledge, love, fitness, and equanimity — come from ignoring others and improving ourselves.",\

 "Signaling virtue is a vice.",\

 "Investing favors the dispassionate. Markets efficiently separate emotional investors from their money.",\

 "Reality is neutral. Our reactions reflect back and create our world. Judge, and feel separate and lonely. Anger, and lose peace of mind. Cling, and live in anxiety. Fantasize, and miss the present. Desire, and suffer until you have it. Heaven and hell are right here, right now.",\

 "Knowledge is a skyscraper. You can take a shortcut with a fragile foundation of memorization, or build slowly upon a steel frame of understanding.",\

 "A busy mind accelerates the perceived passage of time. Buy more time by cultivating peace of mind.",\

 "Politics is the exercise of power without merit.",\

 "Politics and merit are opposite ends of a spectrum. More political organizations are less productive, have less inequality, and top performers opt out. More merit based organizations have higher productivity, more inequality, and higher odds of internal fracture.",\

# "Doctors won’t make you healthy.\nNutritionists won’t make you slim.\nTeachers won’t make you smart.\nGurus won’t make you calm.\nMentors won’t make you rich.\nTrainers won’t make you fit.\nUltimately, you have to take responsibility. Save yourself.",\

 "You have to surrender, at least a little bit, to be the best version of yourself possible.",\
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# Quotes from: https://www.notion.so/Quotes-by-Naval-Ravikant-3edaf88cfc914b06a98b58b62b6dc222 # """llusion #1: The illusion of meaning # We’re all going to die, and everything will turn to dust – how can anything have meaning?""",\ # "Doctors won’t make you healthy.\nNutritionists won’t make you slim.\nTeachers won’t make you smart.\nGurus won’t make you calm.\nMentors won’t make you rich.\nTrainers won’t make you fit.\nUltimately, you have to take responsibility. Save yourself.",\