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3 years

When you’re young, you want to be rich. When you’re rich, you want to be young.

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Effortless Stoicism, a thread.

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3 years

One day you will die. All of this will end. All there is to do is play.

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4 years

The End of Anxiety, a thread.

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Travel begins to lose its appeal when you no longer want to escape from your life.

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3 years

Most hard work is a form of laziness. The real hard work is in finding a way to make it easy.

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2 years

Self talk is a waste of time because you can’t tell yourself anything you don’t already know.

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2 years

“This” is truth. “That” is illusion.

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4 years

The Intricacies of Desire, a thread.

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3 years

You get one life, don't waste it.

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2 years

Your mind keeps talking because you keep listening.

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3 years

The more you complain, the less you value your time.

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3 years

Most people are painfully unaware of how deeply they are conditioned by their environment.

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5 years

To become a clear communicator, become a clear thinker.

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3 years

To become an optimist, read insightful tweets. To become a pessimist, read the comments.

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4 years

“Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.” —Alan Watts

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3 years

Look around you. This is it.

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5 years

Only when you ask nothing of the world can you be truly free.

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If you aren’t living the life you want, you have no one to blame but yourself.

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3 years

If truth exists, why settle for anything less?

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5 years

The loudest voice rarely carries the most wisdom.

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5 years

Knowledge may help you win the game, but wisdom will allow you to see the games that are worth playing.

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5 years

Utter disregard for consensus is a superpower.

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4 years

Only one who is at peace with the transitory nature of things can truly live.

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5 years

A simple, but powerful, heuristic: Illusions result in emotion, truth results in equanimity.

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4 years

The search for “better” is something you will take with you to the grave.

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4 years

The selfish reason to be honest is that it feels better than lying.

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4 years

The greatest books have more insights than one can absorb in a single reading.

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1 year

How to Become Mentally Tough (without becoming arrogant):

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4 years

Confidence is the absence of doubt, not the presence of pride.

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4 years

In the age of the internet, being yourself is a career.

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5 years

Man’s mistake is to believe that his pain is created when his desires go unfulfilled, but it is the wanting that creates the pain.

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1 year

You aren't a victim of your circumstances, you're a victim of your outlook.

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4 years

If you act always with authenticity, you never have to worry about maintaining your brand.

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1 year

To become an optimist, read insightful tweets. To become a pessimist, read the comments.

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5 years

First, removing a misconception: By eliminating your emotional reactions, you will not become unfeeling. Rather, you become sensitive to nuances of which you were previously unaware. Now on to the matter at hand.

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3 years

“All my spare time I would spend looking at myself in silence.” —Nisargadatta Maharaj

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3 years

The secrets to peace are learned by studying your mind.

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5 years

Your reactions come from the way you understand the world. Change your understanding, and the reactions will change of their own accord.

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4 years

Understand the “rules” so you can break them when it is beneficial.

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1 year

Boredom is the mind’s defense against stillness.

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4 years

People guard their material posessions with vigilence, and scatter their time in the wind.

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2 years

The right words from the wrong person won’t carry the weight they deserve.

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3 years

The best coach is the one you never have to talk to again.

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3 years

The more you need from your relationships, the less harmonious they will be.

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4 years

Life is an empty, meaningless, glorious game.

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2 years

You don’t find peace once you’ve looked for it long enough, you find peace once you’re tired of everything else.

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5 years

Nothing will satisfy you forever. Nothing will grant you permanent happiness.

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5 years

The great lie at the center of all emotional reactions is that the world has something of value to offer you.

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4 years

To discover truth, act like a 5 year old. Keep asking yourself “why” until you come upon something you don’t know.

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4 years

Life-Changing Realizations, a thread.

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3 years

Most of the problems we encounter are really ancient problems with a modern twist.

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4 years

No one is going anywhere, yet everyone is in a hurry.

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4 years

Knowledge can be timely, but wisdom is timeless.

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2 years

Anger is the mind complaining to itself.

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4 years

You don’t master things you are interested in, you master things you are obsessed with.

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4 years

Everything you hear is filtered through your prior knowledge.

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4 years

To be stoic is not to be emotionless, but to remain unaffected by your emotions.

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4 years

You suffer in the present because you hope for the future.

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2 months

When someone says all ideas are a remix of the dictionary, they’re outing themself as an LLM.

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4 years

Everything that can be had can be lost.

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4 years

The cause of anxiety is hope.

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If you can't take a joke, life loses its luster. If everything is a joke, life loses its depth.

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3 years

If your opinions haven’t changed in years, you’ve probably stopped scrutinizing them.

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4 years

Quality content attracts a quality audience.

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4 years

Respect for the readers’ time is an underrated quality in authors.

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3 years

Unconfidence is a habit, not a trait. It’s easier to change than most people think.

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5 years

Rid yourself of illusions, and you will rid yourself of all unwanted emotions.

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4 years

Anxiety comes to an end in the person who realizes he can hold on to nothing.

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4 years

The triggers of anxiety are external, but the cause is internal.

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4 years

If you approach life as though you have something to gain from it, you will be prone to anxiety.

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5 years

Stoicism is a natural byproduct of wisdom, and this is not arrived at through effort.

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5 years

Effortless stoicism does not come when you have control of your emotions, but when you no longer need it.

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3 years

Happiness is the feeling that nothing is missing from your life. If you’re trying to become happy, you’ve assumed something is missing.

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5 years

Attempting to change your emotions will lead to the same discomfort you are trying to flee.

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5 years

Effortless stoicism will come when you have dismantled everything in your mind that produces reactions.

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4 years

@naval Telling people what to read is a subtle way of telling them what to think.

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5 years

To seek happiness is to invite misery.

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2 years

Look within until there is no “within”.

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5 years

When you are indifferent to the events in your life, they will not have the power to cause reactions.

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8 months

@naval Awareness exists.

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4 years

People invent problems because they are uncomfortable with a lack of tension in their lives.

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3 years

Over reliance on feedback can be misleading. On some level, you have to know the quality of your own work.

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4 years

Life was not meant to be lived in a state of perpetual anxiety.

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5 years

Pointless and disingenuous questions are the hallmarks of socialization.

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1 year

Use analogies to relate, not to reason.

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2 years

The deeper you go into philosophy, the less you care about philosophy.

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2 years

Every mind is basically the same. Therefore, every mind can be tamed in the same way. Find someone that did it, and listen to everything they have to say. It really is that simple.

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5 months

“What Real Stoicism Looks Like” From my podcast with @naval

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James Pierce

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4 years

Try to remove the triggers of anxiety, and you will be trying for the rest of your life.

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4 years

True wealth results in independence. If it keeps you on the hook, it isn’t wealth.

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4 years

At the center of all desires is the very one that is never examined: the desire to become happy.

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4 years

As technology advances, the disparity between quality of work and quantity of work widens.

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4 years

Outrage is a result of the belief that things should be a certain way.

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4 years

You can’t fight emotion with logic and expect to win.

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1 year

Enlightenment is not having a mind that never speaks. Enlightenment is seeing through the illusion of self. A quiet mind is just a tool for getting there.

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8 months

“Enjoy the journey” is code for “make your peace with the fact that you’ll never get there.”

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James Pierce

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5 years

Just as it requires no effort to have an emotional reaction, it requires no effort to be unemotional.

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5 years

Reactions are prompted by desires, and these desires do not hold up under scrutiny.

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4 years

Remove the cause of anxiety, and there will be no anxiety left to deal with.

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