Life, Chow Yong Han, Page 3

What is karma? A non-religious definition

(Excerpt from The Almanack of Ravikant) Karma is just you, repeating your patterns, virtues, and flaws until you finally get what you deserve....

December 29, 2020| Morals Read More

Good reputation brings you deals

(Excerpt from The Almanack of Ravikant) If you are a trusted, reliable, high-integrity, long-term-thinking dealmaker, when other people want to do deals but don’t know how to do them in a trustworthy manner with...

December 29, 2020| Morals Read More

Reputation has compounding effect

(Excerpt from The Almanack of Ravikant) If you have a sterling reputation and you keep building it for decades upon decades, people will notice. Your reputation will literally end up being thousands or tens of...

December 29, 2020| Morals, Nonlinearity Read More

Be good and be patient. You eventually attract what you project

(Excerpt from The Almanack of Ravikant) Figure out what you’re good at, and start helping other people with it. Give it away. Pay it forward. Karma works because people are consistent. On a long enough timescale, you...

December 29, 2020| Luck, Morals Read More

Money is a means to freedom and there are 3 ways to achieve it

(Excerpt from The Almanack of Ravikant) I learned how to make money because it was a necessity. After it stopped being a necessity, I stopped caring about it. At least for me, work was a means to an end. Making money...

December 29, 2020| Life, Success Read More

Play the wealth game and not the status game

(Excerpt from The Almanack of Ravikant) Wealth creation is an evolutionarily recent positive-sum game. Status is an old zero-sum game. Those attacking wealth creation are often just seeking status. … Status...

December 29, 2020| Ego, Life, Success Read More

Do things for their own sake

(Excerpt from The Almanack of Ravikant) I only really want to do things for their own sake. That is one definition of art. Whether it’s business, exercise, romance, friendship, whatever, I think the meaning of life is...

December 29, 2020| Life, Success Read More

I want to build something that is my own

(Excerpt from Shoe Dog by Phil Knight) I told her that I flat-out didn’t want to work for someone else. I wanted to build something that was my own, something I could point to and say: I made that. It was the only...

October 28, 2020| Business, Life Read More

Business and Life are full of temptations

(Excerpt from Invested by Charles Schwab) The world of business, like the rest of life, is full of wonderful temptations, and making a choice about where you are going to devote your energy is often as much about...

October 24, 2020| Business, Focus, Life, Via Negativa Read More

We deal with physical pain right away but we prolong our emotional pain

(Excerpt from You Are a Badass by Jen Sincero) When we’re in physical pain, we’re usually extremely proactive about figuring out how to make it go away immediately because, you know, it hurts. Even if we have to go...

October 16, 2020| Life Read More