Feynman reluctantly accepted the Nobel Prize.
As did Dylan.
Taleb refuses all honors and awards.
Naval rejected the blue badge.
The greats know honors and symbols are clouded with status and subjectivity.
"Independent thinkers get their feedback from markets and nature. From afar they appear quirky, but up close they are brilliant."
-
@naval
on
@joinclubhouse
now with
@NicoleBehnam
It's not a 'mental model' and not business, marketing or health advice.
Single most valuable tweet I've ever read is this from
@naval
.
Compressed language, simple message: easier to retrieve in the heat of the battle.
Selected takeaways from
@naval
's business-focused
@joinClubhouse
session tonight.
Format was Naval responding to specific questions from random people in audience.
All questions were insightful. All behavior was respectful.
Recording should be forthcoming on YouTube.
'Followers' is an inane term.
It is unsettling it is used on all social platforms.
I read accounts, or I observe or listen to them.
But I don't 'follow' anybody.
We should abandon this cult-laden term.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
- Galileo Galilei, 1632
When it comes to technology development, one free genius is worth more than a million marching scientists.
- Naval Ravikant, 2019
"I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine."
– Bruce Lee
"I have no responsibility to live up to what others expect of me. That's their mistake, not my failing."
- Richard Feynman
This ongoing thread compresses key points from
@naval
's wonderful podcast series with
@ToKTeacher
on the theme of science, theory of knowledge and exploration of David Deutsch's book The Beginning of Infinity.
@naval
"It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion.
It is easy in solitude to live after our own.
But the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are good people and then there are good people who just get in the way.
Conserve your energy and go around the latter.
Attempting to rationalize, debate or inform can be futile.
Delete 'impossible' from your lexicon.
It's just a psychological construct promoted by the nay sayers and never doers.
Find a way. Keep going. And never take no for an answer.