Naval's Happiness Framework
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Naval Ravikant's framework for life priorities and the paradox of how we pursue them versus their actual importance.
Core Priority Framework
- Happiness > Health > Wealth (order of true importance)
- Most people pursue it backwards: Wealth > Health > Happiness (common pursuit order)
- Naval acknowledges this reversed pursuit is "practical" and "fine"
On Wealth
- People won't listen when told wealth isn't most important
- Must discover its relative unimportance through personal experience
- You have to "learn that the hard way"
On Work & Happiness
- Only do work that feels like play
- Life is too short to just grind
- Happiness must be a choice
- Was personally unhappy for decades before deciding to be happy
- Draws from Buddhist and Stoic philosophy:
- Past is unimportant
- Future is unimportant
- Legacy concerns are "bullshit"
- Only the present matters
On Health
- Basic health principles:
- Stay away from sugar
- Do high-intensity interval training
- Stretch frequently
- Admits he's not "world class" at health
- More comfortable giving wealth advice than health advice due to his experience level
Philosophy on Time
- Present moment is what matters
- Legacy is meaningless after death
- Compares death to pre-birth - "nothing" state
- Emphasizes living in the now rather than for the future
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