Naval Ravikant - Insight about Life (non-obvious insight)

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👨 Naval Ravikant
Naval is an entrepreneur and angel investor, a co-author of Venture Hacks, and a co-maintainer of AngelList.

★ Credit
- Speaker: Naval Ravikant

★ Source
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I53WciFh6ik&list=PL3bSdFK6-qbMtfkDHvzTJMW8cL6kSmaaF&index=20&t=9s&ab_channel=TimFerriss


📝📝📝📝📝 Quotes 📝📝📝📝📝

"The selfish reason to be humble is that the more seriously you take yourself, the unhappier you’re going to be." - Naval Ravikant

"All your seriousness is about sandcastles. And you yourself will leave them one day, trampling them down, and you will not look back. The people who take it seriously miss the beauty of playfulness." - Osho

"The whole secret of existence, is to have no fear" - Swami Vivekananda

“You must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.”
- Richard Feyman


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Question: What insight about life have you acquired that seems obvious to you, but may not seem obvious to everyone else?

- No Fear of Death
* A lot of life's struggle comes from a deep fear of death.
* Abandon the quest for immortality (in all forms)
** quest for immortality == Building something that will last after you die

- The Universe
* In comparison to the Universe...
** We are insignificant
** We exist for an extremely short period of time.
current age of the universe = 13.8billion years
estimated lifespan of the universe = 50billion years
70years / 50billion years = 0,0000000014
Our natural-default state is to be dead!
A human is alive an estimated 0,00000014% of the universe life time.
** Anything we do will eventually fade away.

- Realizations...
Reflecting on the Universe and our death can help us realize how precious life is.
* Don't waste your life being unhappy. (No excuse to suffer)
* See life as a Game
* Enjoy yourself
* Sleep Well at night
* Behave morally correct
* Help others (but... without making yourself miserable)
* Don't take yourself so seriously

"The selfish reason to be humble is that the more seriously you take yourself, the unhappier you’re going to be." - Naval Ravikant

"All your seriousness is about sandcastles. And you yourself will leave them one day, trampling them down, and you will not look back. The people who take it seriously miss the beauty of playfulness." - Osho


- Potential sources of meaning in life...
* To keep growing and Learning.
* To seek truth.
* To accept things the way they are. Accept reality.
* * Avoid wishful thinking.
“You must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.”
- Richard Feyman
** Be in harmony with Reality


📝📝📝📝📝 Reflections 📝📝📝📝📝

"The whole secret of existence, is to have no fear" - Swami Vivekananda

Reflections on overcoming Fear...
In short words, what is being very helpful to me is to *believe* that all pain that I might experience in any future moment, is necessary (supportive for my personal growth) and bearable (is not going to kill me). This is just wisdom from the Buddha, but Nassim Taleb exposes exactly the same thing through his concept of "Post-Traumatic-Growth" (I made a video of this concept).

I'm a believer...
I'm learning to be more eager to *believe*, given that I'm increasingly realizing its importance and necessity for one's life. To believe in something, is what gives us the strength to execute on our life's mission consistently, and to make something beautiful from this life. Because if we were 100% rational beings, we wouldn't have a north or destination to follow.


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