Naval Ravikant - The Most Common Mistake People Make [with Shane Parrish, M.D. Kapil Gupta]

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Naval is asked by Shane Parrish about the most common mistake that people make and he goes into one of the pillars of buddhism to answer the question: The belief that something external will make you happy. Later, in conversation with Kapil Gupta, he shares his personal journey regarding this issue.

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👉 Naval Ravikant

📲 How to Get Rich (podcast)

📚 Books
📖 The Almanack of Naval Ravikant, by Eric Jorgenson.

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- The idea / belief that you are gonna be happy from an external circumstance

- We are addicted to the desire, instead of the actual thing.
Addicted to the idea that the new thing could potentially bring joy / happiness (but this is a fundamental delusion)

- Changing the external world won't change your inner peace / joy.

- Do self-actualize, but beware is not gonna change your inner state.

Naval's personal journey / experience ----

- Big change in the external world (free to do anything) --- led to only a small change in his quality of life and peace

- Any freedom that leads to the desire for more freedom, is not freedom.

- Most people believe that the source of their fear, anxiety, and pains come from the circumstances (the external world).
* That is why most people spend their lives trying to change their circumstances. But circumstances only reveal parts of oneself, which then causes the emotion. So, all conflicts are essentially self-conflicts.

- Practical problems to solve in the external world -- Food, shelter... (ensure survival)
• Once that is covered, problems are better solved in the "internal world" (self-examination).

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[kishparikh]

There needs to be a new model of success: be someone who acts fully in the world and pursues worldly things, but internally is calm and at peace with nothing. “Be in the world, not of the world” as they say, Naval is one of the few people I see who live like this.

[pfuhad]

I am so grateful for a person like NAVAL and his book Almanak .

[mangowolf]

I think this relates a lot to gratitude. The opposite of gratitude is desire. And often we are heavily tied to our desires/goals - we are told that ambition is good, and that we should work for our goals. I think it's fine to have goals and ambitions but the problem becomes when we focus too much on these goals and lose sight of what we currently have, or that we so heavily desire these goals that we can't even function with our own daily lives.

So it's important to strive for balance in a way - to pursue your goals, but be grateful - for progress and for all the simple things we currently have - food, water, air, hands, feet etc.

[schopenhauer]

Yet we will still go and try to get everything we want because that's what we are supposed to do. At the end of the day, it comes to how you feel, and this is decided by the simple comparison of what's "better". Being rich is better than being poor. Therefore it's worth spending time trying to get rich since it can unlock more options of what we are able to do in this shared dream reality is, but the real superpower is doing it knowing it won't change much our internal perspective, and also not caring much when you get rich or even if you don't ever achieve it. Then you look for the next thing, and the process is repeated. Accumulation of feelings and memories where we try maximize the good ones, that's what it is about. The alternative ways of living are the ones where you almost totally ditch the external part, like living the life of a monk, or joining some "Epicurean" community if that even exists, but these would be for few - to abdicate from all the comfort the modern world offers us is extremely difficult.

[TNTsundar]

The thing is this idea is tipsy turvy to the fundamentals of capitalism. The whole western world is built around people who were/are materialistic in nature.

[manir]

Then whats your opinion on Getting a PhD for a good reason(some good research) even after self actualized state? It won't make you rich but it's a different yearning.

[liamfoo]

Is it yourself replying to Naval in the second clip or is it actually part of an interview?