My conversation with @naval. Enjoy!
(0:00) - The Theory of Everything
(4:48) - How do you know what’s true?
(7:51) - Groups search for consensus, individuals search for truth
(13:07) - We have never run out of a single resource
(15:25) - Are we destroying the Earth?
(17:48) - Marxism denies wealth creation
(21:28) - Regulation kills innovation
(27:05) - Degrowth and the fall of Western universities
(33:31) - Why the West is best
(35:47) - Federalism
(38:10) - Everyone wants to live forever
(41:44) - Humans are universal explainers
(43:25) - Collectivism vs. individualism
(50:44) - You cannot explain the universe without explaining humans
(55:02) - How @DavidDeutschOxf’s ideas have changed Naval’s life
(1:02:31) - The scientific method isn’t possible
(1:05:07) - The low-hanging fruit theory is a bad explanation
(1:08:19) - The biggest threats to Western civilization
I think about this twice a day.
Every morning when I sit down to read & again when I begin to work, I say to myself,
“Accept the initial agitation.”
When you try to focus, Andrew Huberman explains, “the brain circuits that turn on first are of the stress system.”
Meaning:
“The agitation and stress that you feel at the beginning of something—when you’re trying to lean into it and you can’t focus: you feel agitated and your mind’s jumping all over the place—that is just a gate. You have to pass through that gate to get to the focus component.”
There’s a common misconception, @hubermanlab continues: “the misunderstanding around how these brain circuits work has led to this idea...a kind of obsession with the idea that we have to feel good in order to be productive.”
“And nothing could be further from the truth.”
The truth is it’s the reverse: we have to be productive—we have to start working, we have to lean in and get going, accepting the initial agitation—in order to feel good.
So along with “accept the initial agitation,” sometimes—when I don’t feel especially good, motivated, interested, or energized—I say to myself,
“Forget how you feel right now.”
“It will feel good,” Huberman says, “but there’s a whole staircase in which it feels kind of lousy...The early stages of hard work and focus are always going to feels like agitation, stress, and confusion.”
“Remember: there’s a gate of entry. You have to wade through some sewage before you can swim in clear water. That’s the way I always think about it.”
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“Mood follows action.” — @richroll
The clip below is from Andrew’s 2020 interview on Rich’s podcast (https://t.co/HqdLeNKTxm)
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