5. Noticed I do 2 kinds of walking activities:
1. Walking to be at a certain place at a certain time (100% utility)
2. Walking for the sake of walking with no specific intention (0% utility)
In hindsight on a long time horizon, No.2 often had greater utility than No.1
3. Munger on Envy
Envy is the worst negative-sum game.
1. The envious person is miserable
2. The envied person is under attack
It's a virus of the mind that eats joy from everyone involved.
2. Password Safety 101
If your password is 8 lowercase letters, hackers can brute force it instantly.
If your password is a mix of 18 numbers, lower/uppercase, and symbols -- it takes hackers 26 trillion years to brute force it.
This is Matrix movie star Keanu Reeves. He was abandoned by his father at the age of 3 and grew up with 3 different stepfathers. He is dyslexic. His dream of becoming a hockey player was shattered by a serious accident. His daughter died at birth. His wife died in a car accident. His best friend, River Phoenix, died of an overdose. His sister battled leukemia.
No bodyguards, no luxury houses. Keanu lives in an ordinary apartment and likes wandering around town and often seen riding a subway in NYC.
When he was filming the movie "The Lake House," he overheard the conversation of two costume assistants, one crying as he would lose his house if he did not pay $20,000 - On the same day, Keanu deposited the necessary amount in his bank account. In his career, he has donated large sums to hospitals including $75 million of his earnings from “The Matrix” to charities.
In 2010, on his birthday, Keanu walked into a bakery & bought a brioche with a single candle, ate it in front of the bakery, and offered coffee to people who stopped to talk to him.
In 1997, some paparazzi found him walking one morning in the company of a homeless man in Los Angeles, listening to him and sharing his life for a few hours.
In life, sometimes the ones most broken from inside are the ones most willing to help others.
This man could buy everything, and instead, every day he gets up and chooses one thing that cannot be bought:
To be a caring person.
Simple Acts of Kindness
The most attractive trait is self respect.
People who respect themselves are: transparent, compassionate, and unwilling to betray themselves or anyone else for short term pleasure or status.
It’s rare. And magnetic.
People don't actually want advice. They already know what they should be doing. They want someone to listen and support them.
Here's how to stop giving unsolicited advice: