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Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse is recommended by many of my podcast guests. There is one takeaway that Naval Ravikant (@naval) has reinforced with me several times on our long walks. The protagonist, Siddhartha, a monk who looks like a beggar, has come to the city and falls in love with a famous courtesan. He attempts to court her, and she asks, “What do you have?” A well-known merchant similarly asks, “What can you give that you have learned?” His answer is the same in both cases, so I’ve included the latter story below. Merchant: “. . . If you are without possessions, how can you give?” Siddhartha: “Everyone gives what he has. The soldier gives strength, the merchant goods, the teacher instruction, the farmer rice, the fisherman fish.” Merchant: “Very well, and what can you give? What have you learned that you can give?” Siddhartha: “I can think, I can wait, I can fast.” Merchant: “Is that all?” Siddhartha: “I think that is all.” Merchant: “And of what use are they? For example, fasting, what good is that?” Siddhartha: “It is of great value, sir. If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do. If, for instance, Siddhartha had not learned to fast, he would have had to seek some kind of work today, either with you, or elsewhere, for hunger would have driven him. But, as it is, Siddhartha can wait calmly. He is not impatient, he is not in need, he can ward off hunger for a long time and laugh at it. ” *** I think of Siddhartha’s answers often and in the following terms: “I can think” → Having good rules for decision-making, and having good questions you can ask yourself and others. “I can wait” → Being able to plan long-term, play the long game, and not misallocate your resources. “I can fast” → Being able to withstand difficulties and disaster. Training yourself to be uncommonly resilient and have a high pain tolerance.

These clips are two of the best pieces of writing advice you will ever get about writing on the internet. I promise. It is so good we show it to our newsletter students. 1st: Most of us should write to help ourselves think.

"Eat at a local restaurant tonight. Get the cream sauce. Have a cold pint at 4 o’clock in a mostly empty bar. Go somewhere you’ve never been. Listen to someone you think may have nothing in common with you. Order the steak rare. Eat an oyster. Be open to a world where you may not understand or agree with the person next to you, but have a drink with them anyways. Eat slowly. Tip your server. Check in on your friends. Check in on yourself. Enjoy the ride." - Anthony Bourdain

Josh Waitzkin was a chess prodigy. He won the U.S. Junior Chess Championship at age 11. He became an International Master at age 16. And his life was made into a movie (“Searching for Bobby Fischer”) at 17. But then, around the age of 18, Waitzkin quit playing chess because… He got a new coach. “I was a naturally creative, aggressive chess player,” Waitzkin explained. But the new coach forced Waitzkin to play like the great chess players Anatoly Karpov and Tigran Petrosian—“the most positional, conservative chess players.” When he was forced to play in a way that didn’t align with his natural proclivities, Waitzkin said, “I lost my love for the game.” So he quit. He later took up martial arts, and after just 2 years of training, he won his first national championship in martial arts. Asked if he took anything from chess into the martial arts, Waitzkin said he leaned into his unique physical and mental traits: “And in my observation of competitors in any discipline, this a really fundamental idea. Those who succeed at the highest level, I think, basically manifest their unique character through their discipline.” Takeaway 1: Waitzkin said he was at his best (as a chess player then a martial artist) when his style aligned with his personality. This is known in economics as “match quality”—the degree of alignment between the traits of a profession and the traits of a person. The NBA executive turned venture capitalist, Sam Hinkie, was asked how he thought about shaping his career path. Essentially, Hinkie said he tried to optimize for match quality. “By nature,” Hinkie explained, “I think in decades, and I have a steady temperament.” So, Hinkie thought, “Can you get to a place where there is leverage on that kind of thinking, where that kind of steady temperament is rewarded?” Takeaway 2: Waitzkin writes in his book, “The Art of Learning,” that “one of the most critical factors in becoming a high performer is the degree to which your relationship to your pursuit stays in harmony with your unique disposition.” The music producer Rick Rubin is a good example of this. Rubin is a voracious consumer of art. He’s constantly listening to music, reading a book, watching a movie, at a museum, or driving around just to look at beautiful architecture. “It’s all I do,” Rubin told screenwriter Brian Koppelman. “But not because it’s my job. It’s like, my job is my job because the person that I am loves to do those things.” - - - “It seems to me that each of us expressing our own originality is the essence of our art and professionalism.” — Jim Henson Follow @bpoppenheimer for more content like this!

An important rule for life.

When in doubt, zoom out.

A concept that changed my life. The Time Billionaire:

Current financial system explained

Confirmation Bias in life: Whatever you believe about yourself, you will find evidence to confirm that belief. Believe you’re worthless—you’ll find evidence to confirm that. Believe you’re worthy—you’ll find evidence to confirm that. Belief can create your reality. You choose.

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I read 65 books in 2022. Here are my top 10 favorite ones:

22 ideas from 2022. The top 1% of ideas I encountered:

I asked 295,000 people for their favorite podcast episode of 2022. Here are 10 episodes that showed up the most often:

How to retain everything you learn. The Spaced Repetition Method (science-backed):

Buddhist monks have some of the strongest & happiest minds in the world. I wanted to know why. So, when I was 22, I spent half a year training with them in a Burmese monastery. My biggest insight and transformation was NOT what I expected. Here's what it is: