Life formulas

Happiness = Health + wealth + good relationships

Health = Excercise + Diet + sleep

Excercise = High intensity resistance training + sports + rest

Diet = Natural foods + intermittent fasting + plants

Sleep = No alarms + 8-9 hours + Circadian rhythms

Wealth = Income + wealth * (return on investment)

Income = Accountability + leverage + specific knowledge

Accountability = Personal branding + personal platform + taking risks

Leverage = Capital + people + intellectual property

Specific knowledge = knowing how to do something society cannot yet easily train other people to do

Return on investment = “Buy and hold” + valuation + margin of safety

Naval’s rules

1. Be present above all else

2. Desire is suffering (Buddha)

3. Anger is a hot coal you hold in your hand while waiting to throw at some one else (Buddha)

4. If you can’t see yourself working with someone for life, don’t work with them for a day

5. Learning (reading) is the ultimate meta-skill and can be traded for anything else

6. All the real benefits in life come from compound interest

7. Earn with your mind, not with your time

8. 99 percent of all effort is wasted

9. Total honesty at all times, it’s almost always possible to be honest and positive

10. Praise specifically, criticize generally (Warren Buffett)

11. Truth is that which has predictive power

12. Watch every thought (“ask why am i having this thought?” )

13. All greatest comes from suffering

14. Love is given, not received

15. Enlightenment is the space between your thoughts (Eckhart Tolle)

16. Mathematics is the law of nature

17. Every moment has to be complete in and of itself

Health, love, and your mission, in that order. Nothing else matters.