• if you have nothing in your life but at least 1 person loving you, it’ll do wonders for your self esteem.
• study microeconomics, game theory, psychology, persuasion, ethics, mathematics, computers.
• society, business, money are downstream of technology which is itself downstream of science. science applied is the engine of humanity.
• escape competition through authenticity.
• all the returns in life - wealth, relationship, knowledge come from compound interest.
• people will forgive failures as long as you were honest and made big integrity effort.
• the real wealth is created by starting your own companies or even by investing.
• following your genuine intellectual curiosity is a better foundation for a career than following whatever is making money right now.
• final form of leverage - products with no marginal cost of replication. books, media, movies and code. code is the most powerful form of permission less leverage.
• get out of a relative mindset, optimists actually do better in the long run.
• status games are always going to exist, avoid status games at all costs - they make you angry, combative person.
• 3 big decisions you can make: where you live, who you are with, what you do.
  • choosing what city to live in can almost completely determine the trajectory of your life.
• whether in commerce, science or politics - history remembers the artists. art is anything done for its own sake.
• the single most important thing about a company is the alumni network.
• you have to do hard things anyway to create your own meaning in life.
• the really smart thinkers are clear thinkers.
• our egos are constructed in our first 2 decades then we spend rest of our lives to make our ego happy.
• suffering
  • accept the world the way it is
  • make your ego change in an extremely hard way
• charisma is the ability to project confidence and love at the same time.