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Answers given by @naval in podcast Tim Ferriss show @tferriss
Q.What is the book or books you& #39;ve given most as a gift and why or what are one two three books that have greatly influenced your life?
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1. Total freedom by Jiddu Krishnamurti
2. Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari.
3. The Evolution of Everything by Matt Ridley
Q. How has a failure or apparent failure set you up for later success? Do you have a favorite failure of yours?
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Suffering is a moment of clarity when you can no longer deny the truth of a situation and forced into uncomfortable change. Inside suffering is a seed of change.
Q.If you could have a gigantic billboard anywhere with anything on it what would it say and why?
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Desire is a contract that you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want.

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Desire is a driver, a motivator, in fact, a sincere and uncompromising desire placed above everything else is nearly always fulfilled but every judgment, every preference, every setback spawns its own desire and soon we drown in them. we suffer until it& #39;s fulfilled.
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Happiness or at least peace is the sense that nothing is missing in this moment no desires running amok.

It& #39;s okay to have a desire but pick a big one and pick it carefully to drop the small ones.
Q. What is one of the best or most worthwhile investments you& #39;ve ever made?
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Every book I read that wasn& #39;t assigned to me or that I didn& #39;t read with a purpose in mind.

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We live in the age of Alexandria when every book and every piece of knowledge ever written down is a fingertip away. The means of learning are abundant, it& #39;s the desire to learn that& #39;s scarce, cultivate that desire by reading what you want not what you’re supposed to.
Q. In the last five years what new belief behavior or habit has most improved your life?
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Happiness is a choice you make and the skill you develop.

We accept the voice that talks to us in our head all the time as the source of all truth but all of it is malleable.
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Memory and identity are burdens from the past that prevent us from living freely in the present.
Q. What advice would you give to a smart, driven college student about to enter the real world? What advice should they ignore?
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Follow your intellectual curiosity over whatever is hot right now. If your curiosity ever leads you to a place where society eventually wants to go you& #39;ll get paid extremely.
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Do everything you were going to do but with less angst, less suffering, less emotion. Everything takes time.
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Ignore the news, complainers, angry people, high conflict people, anyone trying to scare you about a danger that isn& #39;t clear and present.
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Don& #39;t do things that you know are morally wrong not because someone is watching but because you are.

Self-esteem is just the reputation that you have with yourself.
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Play the hand that you& #39;re dealt to the best of your ability so you will eventually get what you deserve. In the end, everyone gets the same judgment “Death”.
Q. What are the bad recommendations you hear in your profession or area of expertise?
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“You& #39;re too young”. Most of history was built by young people they just got credit when they were older.
Q. In the last five years what have you become better at saying no to?
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Nearly everything. I make a lot fewer short-term compromises. I aspire to only work with people who I can work with forever, to invest my time in activities that are a joy unto themselves, and to focus on the extremely long term so I have no time for short-term things.
Q. When you feel overwhelmed or unfocused what do you do?
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Remember that you have to die, all of this will go to nothing.
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