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Happy Thursday folks!

Here is my favorite passage of the week, two quotes and book of the week with two important lessons to ponder on:

Passage of the Week:

Neuroscientist and Author Rachel Barr on living out on values that matter:

Two Quotes:

Book of the Week with 2 Important Lessons:

The book of the week is The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness by Eric Jorgenson.

Read it, reread it, and read it again. This book is packed with distilled wisdom for living a good life as a modern human and from one of the greatest thinkers of our time, Naval Ravikant. Naval is an entrepreneur, philosopher, and investor who has captivated the world with his principles for building wealth and creating long-term happiness. This book is a collection of Naval’s wisdom and experience from the last ten years, shared as a curation of his most insightful interviews and poignant reflections.

This is the rare kind of book that truly earns the label of wisdom literature. It's not just about building wealth or happiness in a superficial way, but about fostering clear thinking and lasting beliefs. Far from a typical self-help book that pushes making money through hype or filler, this is the complete opposite: straightforward, genuine, and zero-fluff conversations/speeches from Naval, delivered with refreshing directness.

I will not be lying when I say I have highlighted nearly on every page of the book, it's that impactful and I can't recommend it highly enough.

Here are two important lessons from the book:

1) Learn to love to read:

The genuine love for reading itself, when cultivated, is a super-power. We live in the age of Alexandria, when every book and every piece of knowledge ever written down is a fingertip away. The means of learning are abundant, it’s the desire to learn that is scarce. “I think I always loved to read because I’m actually an antisocial introvert. I was lost in the world of words and ideas from an early age,” says Naval. One of my favorite lines on reading from Naval is: “Read what you love until you love to read.”

You almost have to read the stuff you’re reading, because you’re into it. You don’t need any other reason. There’s no mission here to accomplish. Just read because you enjoy it. Reading a book isn’t a race—the better the book, the more slowly it should be absorbed. Naval don’t actually read a lot of books. He pick up a lot of books and only get through a few which form the foundation of his knowledge. It almost doesn’t matter what you read. Eventually, you will read enough things (and your interests will lead you there) that it will dramatically improve your life.

To become a clearer and more independent thinker, read the greats in math, science, and philosophy. Ignore your contemporaries and news. Avoid tribal identification. Put truth above social approval. No book in the library should scare you. Whether it’s a math, physics, electrical engineering, sociology, or economics book. You should be able to take any book down off the shelf and read it. A number of them are going to be too difficult for you. That’s okay, read them anyway. Then go back and reread them and reread them. When it comes to reading, make sure your foundation is very, very high quality.

2) Happiness requires presence:

At any given time, when you’re walking down the streets, a very small percentage of your brain is focused on the present. The rest is planning the future or regretting the past. This keeps you from having an incredible experience. It’s keeping you from seeing the beauty in everything and for being grateful for where you are. You can literally destroy your happiness if you spend all of your time living in delusions of the future.

We crave experiences that will make us be present, but the cravings themselves take us from the present moment. A lot of our unhappiness comes from comparing things from the past to the present. Anticipation for our vices pulls us into the future. Eliminating vices makes it easier to be present.

There’s a great definition I read: “Enlightenment is the space between your thoughts.” It means enlightenment isn’t something you achieve after thirty years sitting on a mountaintop. It’s something you can achieve moment to moment, and you can be enlightened to a certain percent every single day.

Book I am currently reading:

Wisdom Takes Work: Learn. Apply. Repeat. by Ryan Holiday. Wisdom is Ryan Holiday's guiding principle, and this book is the culmination of all his work. Drawing on fascinating stories of the ancient and modern figures alike, Holiday shows how to cultivate wisdom through reading, self-education, and experience.