"The goal of media is to make every problem, your problem."
"Read the books they want to ban."
"Happiness to me is mainly not suffering, not desiring, not thinking too much about the future or the past, really embracing the present moment and the reality of what is, and the way it is."
"All tyranny begins with the desire to coerce others for the greater good."
"You can neither give happiness, nor receive it."
"My definition of wisdom is knowing the long-term consequences of your actions."
"Happiness is there when you remove the sense of something missing in your life."
"The secret to public speaking is to speak as if you were alone."
"The real struggle isn’t proletariat vs bourgeois. It’s between high-status elites and wealthy elites. When their cooperation breaks, revolution."
"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."
"Don’t settle, and don’t struggle. Life is what flows in between."
"People spend too much time doing and not enough time thinking about what they should be doing."
"A permanent solution to a temporary problem becomes a permanent problem."
"If your opinions line up neatly with those of your friends and colleagues, they’re not your opinions."
"The really smart thinkers are clear thinkers. They understand the basics at a very, very fundamental level. I would rather understand the basics really well than memorize all kinds of complicated concepts I can’t stitch together and can’t rederive from the basics."
Study mathematics to understand physics. Study physics to understand chemistry. Study chemistry to understand biology. Study biology to understand psychology. Study psychology to understand economics. Study economics and philosophy to be free.
"The closer you are to the truth, the more silent you become inside."
"The tools for learning are abundant. It’s the desire to learn that’s scarce."
"Coding is a superpower because you can speak the language of robots and command them to do whatever you like"
"The smarter you get, the slower you read."
"The source of wisdom is pain."
on how to figure out what to do / what to build / what to work on: Our parents used to say “Do what’s practical.” Books today will say “Do what you love.” Instead, Naval advises “Do what feels like play to you but looks like work for others.”
From China:
As the saying goes, "food is the first thing for the people, and taste is the first thing for food."
"as the saying goes, although the sparrow is small, it has all five internal organs."
as the Chinese proverb says’ golden and silver homes are not better than your own home’.
As the saying goes, "above there is heaven, below there are Suzhou and Hangzhou."
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