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#225 - Eric Jorgenson - The Wisdom Of Naval Ravikant

Modern Wisdom

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Are You Happy You've Got This Thing?

Happiness is a state, not a skill. Have to choose to be happy. Not just once. We have to choose to learn the skills of happiness over and over and over again. Don't set an alarm clock. Minimize your use of calendar. Those are things that can pull you out at the present moment. If you can't be happy with a cup of coffee, you won't behappy with a yacht. And soi have this thought every time i hold this kind of warm thing and smell it, and i know I can be happy with anything. That's what its purest sense influence e marketing was supposed to be.

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