Decision Making Heuristics

If you compete at being someone else, you won’t be the best in the world at it, and in turn you won’t get rewarded properly for it

It’s not that we fear death, it’s that we fear not living the life we want

Life is actually really long, it’s just that we waste it

Value your time, it’s all you have

Intelligence and open mindedness are everything

It’s more important to find something you really want to do, that can be productive as well

Find a career/job where you’re tracked on the outputs, rather than the inputs – this will allow you to control your time much better

Most of the gains in life come from suffering in the short term, so you can get paid in the long term

We didn’t evolve to be angry all the time

I don’t want anything from anyone, so boredom is the only thing that drives me to do anything

Discipline is just you fighting with yourself to do something you don’t want to do

Happiness is one of those things that can’t be chased directly – if you do chase it, you’re chasing pleasure

Nowadays – we have knowledge worker jobs

Figure out what it was you were doing as a kid, almost effortlessly, that you didn’t even really consider a skill, but people around you would notice

If you’re truly living life on your terms, and you are happy, you’ll find that you are less afraid of death

People who live below their expectations, enjoy a freedom people who are busy upgrading their lifestyles can’t afford

The moment I figure out something is a waste of my time, I leave immediately – Ex: dinner parties

Making money won’t make you happy, but it will solve your money problems – it removes a set of things that are in the way of making you happy

If you want money – Give the world something it wants that it does not yet know how to get