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"When you’re young, every risk you take can pay off in a big way if you succeed: Your upside is huge. At the same time, the downside is low, because you have a lot of time to recover."

📖 Die with Zero by Bill Perkins

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"The paradox is that hedonism, the pursuit of pleasure for its own sake, leads to anhedonia, which is the inability to enjoy pleasure of any kind."

📖 Dopamine Nation by Anna Lembke

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"If you view all of your works as writing on water or building castles in the sand, then you have no expectation for how life should “actually” be.

Life is just the way it is."

📖 The Almanack of Navil Ravikant by Eric Jorgenson

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"While we can take full responsibility for ourselves, we cannot force change upon another. It is OK to end a relationship that causes harm to your physical or mental wellbeing."

📖 Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? by Dr. Julie Smith

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"Money is just a means to an end:
Having money helps you to achieve the more important goal of enjoying your life."

📖 Die with Zero by Bill Perkins

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"I recommend meditating one hour each morning because anything less is not enough time to really get deep into it. If you really want to try meditation, try sixty days of one hour a day, first thing in the morning."

📖 The Almanack of Navil Ravikant by Eric Jorgenson

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"Knowing that you have enough money to last you the rest of your life (by doing some survival calculations) should give you the peace of mind to start spending more aggressively now."

📖 Die with Zero by Bill Perkins

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"Avoidance not only maintains anxiety, it makes it worse over time."

📖 Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? by Dr. Julie Smith

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"What’s easy shouldn’t determine what you do.
Don’t let difficulty dissuade you from living your best life!"

📖 Die with Zero by Bill Perkins

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"For most people, the optimal net worth peak occurs at some point between the ages of 45 and 60."

📖 Die with Zero by Bill Perkins

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"Relationships are at the core of what it means to be human."

📖 Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? by Dr. Julie Smith

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"You’re born, you have a set of sensory experiences, and then you die.
How you choose to interpret those experiences is up to you."

📖 The Almanack of Navil Ravikant by Eric Jorgenson

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"It is paramount that you stay connected with your goals because they will demand constant nurturing. Return to them on a daily basis. You can do this through journalling."

📖 Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? by Dr. Julie Smith

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"If you want to make money, to do science, to understand game theory or politics or economics or investments or computers, all of these things have math at the core."

📖 The Almanack of Navil Ravikant by Eric Jorgenson

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"Step outside for 10 minutes first thing in the morning. Also make time to get outside as much as possible throughout the day."

📖 Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? by Dr. Julie Smith

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"So much of our life is spent on autopilot—we move through the world as if someone else programmed our actions, and we don’t think nearly enough about how to spend our time and money."

📖 Die with Zero by Bill Perkins

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"If you pay to get out of doing tasks you don’t enjoy, you are simultaneously reducing the number of negative life experiences and increasing the number of positive life experiences (for which you now have more time)."

📖 Die with Zero by Bill Perkins

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"The fact that we all die can define the meaning that we give to life and help us choose how we live with more careful intention."

📖 Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? by Dr. Julie Smith

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"Once you’ve finally determined your net worth peak, you must start spending down, or decumulating."

📖 Die with Zero by Bill Perkins