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📓 7 Life-Changing Insights on Happiness, Wealth, and Freedom
from Naval Ravikant

I took detailed notes on Naval Ravikant’s podcast with Chris Williamson earlier this year..
Its a 3 hour long podcast full of some amazing insights and lessons..
Core insight: we've got success completely backwards.
We sacrifice happiness to become successful, hoping success will make us happy.
We fill calendars to be productive, then wonder why we never have time for what matters. We chase status instead of wealth, then wonder why we never feel like we have enough.
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The 7 Main Lessons from Naval:
Start saying no to create space
Focus on wealth creation over status games
Make decisions that increase long-term peace
Observe your thoughts without becoming them
Protect your attention like your life depends on it (it does)
Love unconditionally, starting with yourself
Stay present - it's all you really have
Read the full post with all my notes and highlights:
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That’s it for today
See you next week
Cheers,
Ayush & Aditi