A Calm Mind, a Fit Body, a House Full of Love
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The last tweet on the topic of working for the long term is that when you're finally wealthy, you'll realize that it wasn't what you were seeking in the first place. But that's for another day. That's a multi. Our topic in of itself, first of all, is that was a really clever way to end the whole thing because it disarms the whole set of people who say, Well, you know, what's the point of getting rich? Because there a lot of people who just like the status signal virtue, signal against the idea of wealth creation or making money. So it was just a good way to disarm all of them. But it's also true in that the things that you really want in life yes, money will solve all your money problems, but it doesn't get you everywhere. The first thing you realize when you made a bunch of money is that you're still the same person.

If you're happy, you're happy. If you're unhappy, you're unhappy. If you're calm and fulfilled and peaceful, you're still that same person. I know lots of very rich people who are extremely out of shape. I know lots of rich people who have really bad family lives. I know lots of rich people who are internally a mess, so I would lean on another tweet that I put out, which is, actually when I think back on it, I think it's my favorite tweet of mine. It's not initially the most insightful. It's not Nurse Lee the most helpful. It's not even the one I think about the most.

But I just when I look at it, there's just such a certain truth in there. It just resonates. And that is that a calm mind, a fit body and a house full of love. These things cannot be bought. They must be earned. Even if you have all the money in the world, you can't have those three things. Jeff Bezos still has to work out. He still has to work his marriage or whatever's next relationship is and his internal mental state. It's still gonna be very much not controlled by external events. It's gonna be based on how common peacefully is in sight. So I think those three things your health, your mental health and your close relationships are things that you have to cultivate and can probably bring you a lot more peace and happiness than any amount of money ever will. So that's what I meant.

Now, how to get there is actually a Tweetstorm that I still need to put out. I've been working on it. I have probably 100 tweets on it. It's just very hard to say anything on the topic without getting attacked from 50 different directions, especially these days on Twitter. So I've been hesitant to do it because I want to target it for a very specific kind of person. There's a bunch of people who don't believe that working on your internal state is useful there, too focused on the external, and that's fine. There's nothing wrong with that. They should do that and that's who. How to get rich. Tweetstorm is four. There's a bunch of people who believe that the only thing worth working on his complete liberation, like you become the Buddha and they'll attack anything in the middle is being useless.

That's fine, too, but most people aren't there, so what I want to do is to create a tweet storm that is just very practical advice for everyday people who want to have a calmer internal state, just a set of understandings, realizations, half truths and truths that if you were to imbibe them properly and again, these were just pointers to ideas that you already have and experiences that you already have that if you keep these top of mind slowly but steadily, it will help you with certain realizations that will lead you to a calmer internal state. That's why I want to work on fitness is another big one. I'm just not the expert. There were plenty of good people on Twitter who are better fitness than me. And I think loving household and relationships actually automatically falls out of the other things. If you have a calm mind and if you've already made money, you should have good relationship. There's no reason why you shouldn't.

A lot of divorces actually happened over money. Unfortunately, this is the reality of it. So having money removes that part of it. Ah, lot of external battles happen because your internal state is not good. When you are naturally internally peaceful, you're gonna pick less fights. She gonna be more loving without expecting anything in return. And that will take care of things on the external relationship front. So money solves your money problems. Money buys your freedom in the material world. I think that was a tweet from your cutting room floor. And money lets you not do the things that you don't want to. D'oh! Yeah, to me the ultimate purpose of money so that you do not have to be in a specific place at a specific time doing anything you don't want to do.

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