How to Live your Best Life [w/ Naval Ravikant]
Hey friend!
Yesterday I posted a new video from a conversation between Naval Ravikant, Eric Jorgenson, Sahil Lavingia, among others. They talk about how should time be spent, so that you get the most out of it. And, on the other hand, what to avoid to not waste time.
Here is all the written content I produced (in a nice format):
✍️ Quotes
“The fool, with all his other faults, has this also, he is always getting ready to live.”
"It's not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it."
- Seneca
"People who don't value their time seem to get very offended by people who do."
- Ryan Holiday
👨 Naval Ravikant
Naval is an entrepreneur and angel investor, a co-author of Venture Hacks, and a co-maintainer of AngelList.
📝 Notes
---- Naval Ravikant -----
- The Past...
* It is a fiction.
* Do not spend any time thinking about the past.
* It only exists in your head.
- The present...
* Is where you exist.
** Thus, this is where you should spend your time.
* Any moment that you are not present, you are wasting your time.
- Time well-spent
* To get the most out of every moment
* Properties
* * It is useful and engaging
* * It is not too mentally disturbing / anxious during that time
* States
** Flow State
*** Definition:
****To engage in a task at the edge of your capabilities (task which is possible but it is challenging).
**** Issue: We can only do this for a few hours each day.
** The 24/7 Flow State
*** How to be in Flow every moment? (not just a few hours)
**** Be Fully engaged on anything that you do. Fully aware and present.
***** Consequence: your mind gets under control -- you get the most out of every moment.
**** Self-awareness -- Detachment from your mind -- Flow State
**** Being Self-aware in every moment -- Leads to Time well-spent
----- Sahil Lavingia ------
- How to Find out if you are happy:
• Ask yourself: Would I change something about this moment?
Link to the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDE1e8sQA7I
💭What I have been thinking lately
Some insights from reading Sapiens (book written by Yuval Noah Harari).
Any new thing that you acquire for the purpose of just upgrading your lifestyle, is a new thing you have decided to slave away for.
This happens because it doesn’t take long until humans take their new lifestyle for granted, and when that happens, they feel like they *need* their luxurious things and so they will keep working hard just to maintain them. They create new obligations out of their desires for a better life. This is why is such a big trap: you slave yourself away by desiring a "better life", not realizing that you are trapped in a never-ending hedonic treadmill. Joe Rogan and Naval Ravikant calls this to be the biggest trap that most people fall into (reference: Joe’s conversation with Naval).
“People who live far below their means enjoy a freedom that people busy upgrading their lifestyles can't fathom.” - Naval Ravikant
The analogy with the Agricultural Revolution…
Yuval Harari explains that this is very likely why the Agricultural Revolution started. Hunter-gatherer Foragers became farmers from their desire for a better life for their families, because farming would increase the food output per unit of land, even if this would translate into harder and less satisfying lifes for the people (farmers had to work much harder than their foragers ancestors).
But this was a trap: because as food supply increased, people started having more child, and that is what ensalved them to be farmers for ever (because now they *needed* the food supply, there was no going back to the forager lifestyle as this would imply starvation for a significant portion of the population) and thus to work harder. Besides, farmers were more likely to die from diseases, since their diet became less varied (dependent of what they cultivated) which decreased their intake of necessary minerals and vitamins, and they lived in villages which made it easier for diseases to spread.
This is why Harari calls the Agricultural Revolution the Biggest Fraud in human's history. Of course, this revolution was required for the later development of modern society, but that does not change the fact that farmers lived a very harsh life.
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