#1309 - Naval Ravikant

All our diseases are diseases of abundance, not diseases of scarcity

I believe everybody can be wealthy. It's not a zero-sum game. It is a positive-sum game.

The best founders I know listen to and read EVERYONE, but then they ignore everyone and make up their own mind

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.

You don't want to be the guy who succeeds in life while being high-strung, high-stress, and unhappy while leaving a trail of emotional wreckage for you and your loved ones

The smaller the company you work for, the happier you'll be

The cost of meetings is so high especially given all the people who are in there... you're literally just dying an hour at a time. So you have to just drop non-urgent meetings or forget them all together if you want to do anything great.

The future of work - "The information revolution, by making it easier to communicate, connect, and cooperate, is allowing us to go back to working for ourselves"

The way to get out of the competition trap is actually to be authentic