#17 50 Maxims from Naval Ravikant

Welcome to another episode. Today we are focusing on Naval and this is Naval Ravikant. This is part three of the Naval Ravikant series. And the craziest thing is when I was reading this, I got through about 12 maxims in my first two episodes. So the first episode was kind of like a recap. The second episode was the first 12 maxims. Now what I have before you today is actually another. I have up to 50 maxims and I want to get through them in the next couple episodes. And so this is one of the biggest things that I want to focus on. But before we get into the episode again, I have a big announcement coming. The big announcement is going to be announced through a wait list. And so a wait list will be put in the description below if you want to join in the coming episodes. And so just look out for that if you want to join. The exclusive content that I will have available, it's very exclusive. I'm limiting it to a very small amount of people. And just make sure you get on that wait list if you want to join now before. Yeah, let's get into this episode. So Naval's Maxims. I've been reading this book. I actually finished it. The biggest thing that I found out in this book is that I agree with Naval on most things, but I don't agree with him on everything. He goes into this whole thing about atheism, evolution, how to read sapient, like read books like sapiens coming from monkey ancestors, we're just monkeys. After we die, we get into this whole, like, you know, we're just dust and then there's all these certain things. And regardless, I don't, I didn't take any of that because I don't think that applies to our mission, the uncommon excellence mission. And I don't agree with that stuff. And that's why I want to focus on the things that will make us better and not get into the whole philosophy or that whole, you know, that whole other side of things. Because I don't agree with it and I don't want that. It's not part of our mission. And so I am curating the books, every single book for the best possible outlook in, in life and just outlook for businesses. Ultimately. I want to optimize, optimize businesses. And I want to, I want this to be practical advice for everyone listening to this and not go into that whole realm of atheism and all that stuff because I don't agree with that. And that's something Naval. I, I would just caution you if you pick up this book, be aware to combat that, or read about that. So don't read this book lightly. There's a lot of good things in this book, but those are things that pop up. So I really want to get into these maximums because we have 50 of them. We were through 12 of them, but I think these are really good. Again, Naval is really good at business, investing, that whole thing, and so really creating wealth. And so one of the best things I can do is just start to read this. And so his first maxim is, is be present. Spending time on the past in the future diminishes from the present. One of the biggest things that I see in this is most of these people. I watched this video by David Sinra on the Founders podcast, and it's talking about Michael Jordan. And Michael Jordan was so focused. He wasn't focused on the past because he ultimately. Or the future. He was so present that, um. And he used to say, why would I take a shot that I haven't. Or why would I think about taking a shot that I haven't taken yet? As in, like, why wouldn't I take that shot? I mean, I don't know if I'm going to miss it or make it. He lost more games with him taking that last shot than he did winning. But ultimately, by taking those shots, it made him a winner. You know, ultimately, he did win those games. You know, he won the finals. He won the championships because of those shots. If he hadn't taken them any any other time, he wouldn't have been used to that. And so that's something that when Naval talks about being present, really spend time on the present. Do not focus on the past or the future. It's really a big thing. And when you get lost in the past or the trauma or all this stuff, it can really diminish from the present of, like, your life. But if you focus too much on building the future or too much on the future, then you start dreaming and it becomes illusions. And so that's one of the biggest things that Naval talks about. And that's the 13th maxim. Now, the 14th says, a lot of our unhappiness comes from company comparing things from the past to the present and have the right mindset about it. So a lot of our unhappiness comes from the comparing things from past to present. It's like, you know, oh, you know, I didn't. I used to have this, or I didn't used to have this, and this is what makes me sad. Or this is what makes Me happy. I think it's a great maxim, I'm sure, because I wrote it down. But you want to have the right mindset of when you're transitioning from the past to the present or from just anything that you're doing. The 15th maxim is desiring to have something is as good as having the thing itself. Naval doesn't explicitly say this in the book, but he did say, and Chris Williamson's podcast on Modern Wisdom. And he was like, Naval was saying, hey, if you're desiring to have something, it's basically, it's just as good as having the thing itself. Because ultimately once you get that thing, you, you don't have that desire anymore. And so your dope, your dopamine or whatever it is goes down and so you have that thing and now you're not, you know, unless you're grateful for it, you kind of lose interest in it. And so kind of desiring to have something is just as good as having the thing itself. We see this in most stories, like with Walt Disney or all these people, they want to get that fame, they desire to have that fame, but ultimately once they hit that and get that, it's not, you know, it goes downhill, you know, almost immediately or over time. And so I think Naval is pointing out something that we, we can take a little, you know, grain of salt from where, you know, don't desire to, like, you can desire to have things, but almost getting that thing can diminish from the, the actual thought of it itself. And that's not for everything granted. You know, you wouldn't think about that, about certain things, but that, that's definitely one of the things that it's good to talk about. Now number 16. It's more important to perfect your desires like in business or perfect your business than to do something you don't 100% desire. I put business in little parentheses and I think that's actually a better representation of this quote. It's more important, it's more important to perfect all the little details, your desires, business, than to do something you don't actually 100% desire to do. I completely agree with this because I mean, there are gonna be times that you don't have the liberty to choose what you want to do. But we live in such an, an entrepreneurial age that if you believe that you can do something most of the time you can have a part time job and do that thing and still, you can still have a part time job and build up that entrepreneurial side and then leave that job and be a full time entrepreneur. So I think that that's a really clear distinction that naval is making where it's like it's important to perfect. If you're going to have a business, you want to perfect that as much as possible. And that's better than doing something you don't 100 want to do. The next thing is don't forget your health and time when making money. This is actually really important because most successful people, they forget their, they forget their health, they forget what they are. Ultimately what ends up happening is they make a ton of money and they realize their body's falling apart. Like Elon Musk, where his body is just, you know, you know he, he slept overnight, all these certain things and ultimately he just, he like he needs help. And granted that's not everyone, but most of the time when you're staying up to 2 or 3am and you're just wearing your body out, it eventually takes a toll. And so that's why do not forget your health when you're making money. And also don't forget your time. Time is valuable and so you obviously want to use your time when you're making money. And now the 18th maxim is real winners are the ones who step out of the game entirely, who don't even play the game and who rise above it. I thought this was really interesting because something about this is really interesting. It's about thinking outside of the box. The whole idea about a winner are the one. Real winners are the ones who step out of the game entirely and they don't even play the game. They rise above the game. It's kind of being able to take yourself. Almost like when you're stuck in a situation with someone and you're thinking about that person or they're talking to you. Being able to step outside of yourself and step into their shoes and kind of step outside of the game or step outside of the box and rise above it is ultimately what's going to get you to be successful in life when you're not just thinking about yourself or thinking about the game that you're playing or, or think about thinking about whatever you're doing but ultimately rising above it. The 19th maxim is you need internal mental, you need internal mental self control and self awareness. They, they need nothing from anyone else. So I think he was saying in this, and I put Elon in quotation, basically we need internal mental self control and self awareness. But Elon Musk, all these people, they don't need anything from anyone else. Basically they have all this internal mental self control and self awareness, ultimately we need to cultivate that. And people like Elon Musk, all these people, they already have that. They have the drive within themselves. And ultimately whatever you're doing, whoever you are, you want to cultivate that inner drive. No matter what, what you're doing, whether that's, you know, starting a business or, you know, being a mechanic or just anything you do, you want to have that internal drive to do the absolute best thing possible and the best job possible. Because ultimately you should hold yourself to a higher standard, just like these people. It, it doesn't matter who you are, you should be holding yourself to a higher standard. That's something I believe in. The 20th maxim is try to eliminate as many shoulds from your life as possible. Doing something, because you should is basically me. It basically means you don't actually want to do it. Something that is interesting is sometimes, I somewhat agree with this quote, sometimes you should do something, but sometimes, yeah, I do agree, eliminate as many shoulds. If people are telling, hey, you should do this, you should do that, you should do this, you, it means you don't actually want to do it because they're telling you to. And ultimately, you know, you don't have to do it. But sometimes people do need to push you and say, hey, you should do this, like it will make you better. And so I've, I've changed a little bit from writing this, but I do ultimately agree with this. And I think if you eliminate those shoulds from your life, then you'll be taking ownership and you'll be saying, hey, I actually want to do this thing or I want to do that. If I would say try to eliminate as many shoulds from your life as possible. If the people that are telling you that you should do that, you actually flip it on them and you say, I want to do this or I want to do that. If you come up with other things that you want to do. The next maxim that I have from Naval is you're competing against yourself. It's a single player game. I think he's just talking about life in general, but it reminds me of a song by Andy Mineo called you can't stop me. And the interesting thing about that song is it's him versus himself. And he's saying, you like myself. I can't stop me or you can't stop me. He's talking about himself. And so the one thing with this, what I like about what Naval is saying is you're competing against yourself. It's A single player game. Life is a single player game. Ultimately in some respects, you know, ultimately there's, there is someone, there's always going to be people watching, but you're competing against yourself. So hold yourself to that higher standard. The 22second maxim or number 22 is choose the right five friends wisely. This is something that cannot be understated or overstated enough. Choosing the people you surround yourself is one of the most important things that, that will happen to you in your life. I would say that ultimately if you're a founder or you're like an obsessive or just anyone in that realm, you're going to have a hard time finding those right five friends because it's going to take a long time for you to actually find them. They're not going to just come to you overnight. It's going to take a while. So I would definitely agree with this. Choose the right five friends wisely and just really like that. That's, you know, you surround yourself with. Well, who you surround yourself with is who you become like. The 23rd maxim is if you can't see yourself working with someone for life, don't work with them for a day. I actually really like this quote because he's saying if you can't, you know, if you can't see yourself working with this person, if you can't see this person working for your company for life, like this is what they want to do, then don't even work for them or work with them one day because ultimately they're just wasting their time and they're wasting your time. Number 24 is prioritize what you love above everything else. Read everything on that topic. This reminds me of Elon Musk, right? Elon Musk. He found out, hey, I really want to build a rocket ship company. So he went to the library and bought or, well, read every single book on physics, spaceships, everything. And he started a spaceship company called SpaceX, which is what we have now, and billion dollar company. The crazy thing is here, if you prioritize what you love above everything else, if you love to do that one thing, then you should first of all read everything, learn everything on that topic. And ultimately it will come to you. You, you will get better. The 25th is first you know it. So this is kind of like a. This is talking about habits. So this is kind of finding that what you love to do. And it's first you know it, then you understand it, then you can explain it, then you feel it, finally you are it. The one thing about this is. He's talking about, like, what, what you want to do, right? First you know what you want to do, then you understand what you want to do, then you can explain what you want to do, then you feel what you want to do. Like you, like, know, like, you can easily tell this to people, and then finally, you are what you want to do. I don't necessarily agree with that, in part because I don't think you become. I don't become my podcast or in some respects, yes, you know, my podcast is me. I am my podcast. But I like, I know I wanted to learn, then I understood reading is important. Then I could finally explain it to other people. Like, this is why I like doing this. And then I, like, I feel like this is the right thing. And finally I. I do it. So I, I agree with most of the things here. I just think it's a really good thing that we can easily learn from. And again, take grains of salt from these things because ultimate, like, just, again, it's one of the biggest things where you're not going to agree 100% with all these people that I read and study on this podcast. I'm not going to agree 100% with these people, but I think getting different perspectives on, you know, how they think is really important. Number 26 says, Ask yourself mentally, what is the positive of this situation? This is going back to what I was talking about with, you know, someone I know, and I was saying, always assume the best of this, of people, right? And the biggest thing with this is what is the positive of this situation? The biggest thing with people nowadays is you can assume all this wrong stuff. You can assume, oh, they did this and they did that, and they must be doing this and they must be doing that. Well, the thing is, if you get hurt or if you. Anything happens to you in a business setting, in a, like, emotional setting, in a relationship setting, ask yourself mentally, what is the positive of the situation? How am I learning? What are the trials supposed to teach me? How am I supposed to grow? I think naval nails it right on the head. And it again, it goes back to reframe it into this mental. This mental reframing of what is the positive of the situation. Number 27, it says, ultimately, you have to take responsibility. That's what I have written down. Ultimately, you have to take responsibility. Again, this goes. It goes back to extreme ownership with Jocko Willink. Jocko Willink, one of the best in terms of Navy seals and written. Let's see, what is it? Extreme ownership, like Ton Tons of books on discipline, all these things. And he says, you have to take responsibility. No one. And it goes again, right, holding yourself to a higher standard. Ultimately, and I know I say that word a lot, you have to hold yourself to a higher standard because if you don't, then no one else will. Only people that really love you. But you need to hold yourself to that higher standard. You have to take responsibility. You have to. You have to make your own choices and your own decisions that will set yourself up for success. And I love what Naval says there. You have to take responsibility. Number 28, be yourself with a passionate intensity. No one in the world is going to beat you at being you. Again, I will say this again. Be yourself with a passionate intensity. No one in the world is going to beat you. And at being you, what he's saying there is, you need to be yourself with a fire, with a drive. You need to be yourself with this intensity that ultimately, again, I say that word a lot. I mean it. No one in the world is being you. They're not. They're not going to be you. Every single person on this planet is a one of one person. And the thing is, no one is going to beat you at being you. So this is the whole. This plays into the whole thing about being authentic, you know, be authentic, because ultimately you're the only one that knows how to be authentic to you. And so no one else is going to beat you at that. And so that's one of the things that I love in that, that maxim. The next maxim is your goal in life is to find the people, business project or art that needs you the most. Don't emulate someone else. Again, that whole office. Authenticity. Don't emulate someone else. That's a great, great line. Don't emulate someone else. Be authentic to yourself. Your goal in life is to find the people, the business project or art that needs you the most. Ultimately, life is like a quest. It's a journey. You have to go and find what, what you were made for. You know, not everyone's going to be called to the same thing. Everyone's different. But doing your thing well and holding yourself to a higher standard is something that everyone needs to do. And this is something that I talk about a lot on my podcast, but something I'm really reinforcing in this episode because I truly believe it. And I think that it's very, very, you know, it's very. Pertaining to the mission of uncommon excellence, number 30 says to make an original contribution, you have to be irrationally. Obsessed with something. I love this because I say the word obsessed a lot. I see it a lot. When you make original contributions, you have to be obsessed with something. Not, not to the point where you're sacrificing your health or your time or your life, but to the point where you're making something really like the best possible ability or the best. To the best ability possible. Once you can be obsessed with something or you just, you, you focus on it a lot, to the point where you're honing your craft. You're, you're, you're honing in on all the details. You're making sure it works. It, it fits, it. The, the pieces fit in the puzzle. All these things. It's. You need to. That. That's ultimately how you be authentic and how you make that original contribution and also through your own lens. That's also another way of being authentic. The next maximum is I don't have a time. I don't have time is just another way of saying it's not a priority. When people say, I don't have time to read books, or I don't have time to, to watch that, or I don't have time to go here or do that, it's ultimately just saying it's not a priority in my life. You know, you can really see someone's priority when they're actually doing it. It's the whole thing of actions speak louder than words. Actions speak louder than words. Because if someone tells you they go to the gym and they don't look like it, you're going to believe the actions more than their words, right? Or if they say, oh, I don't go to the gym a lot, and they look, you know, jacked or ripped or anything, like, muscular, then you're gonna think, oh, yeah, yeah, that guy's lying. He obviously goes to the gym. And if he doesn't, I want to know what, what plan he. He's on. Hopefully not drugs. I don't think he will be. But the, the, the crazy thing is, like, when you think about this again, you got to make things a priority. And don't just talk. It's the actions speak louder than words. Number 32, easy choices. Hard life. Hard choices, easy life. This is eating physically, like working out. This is work. If you make easy choices in life, you're going to have a hard life. If you're going to. If you make those hard choices, like pushing yourself to eat better, pushing yourself to work out more, pushing yourself to work hard, it's actually going to lead to an easier life. And this is something that I really like and I really agree with, and I think that that's something is somewhat, you know, applicable in everyone's lives. Another, another maxim is most of our suffering comes from avoidance. One thing that you see with naval is that whole thing of hard choices, easy life, easy choices, hard life. But something I noticed actually right now is the easy choices, hard life is actually from the avoidance. Most of our suffering comes from an avoidance of pain or suffering. Or like we actually cause our own suffering when we avoid something, when we don't. You know, if, if you've ever had to fire someone, which I haven't, but I know people that have. You know, if you avoid that, then it's. The whole company is going to suffer because you didn't remove. You didn't have the guts to go fire that person. And that, that's just an example of most of our suffering comes from avoidance. Number 34 says too many distractions lead to a heavy mind. Meditation is intermittent interment. Sorry, excuse me, Intermittent. I'm probably saying that wrong. Forgive me. Fasting for the mind. Basically, meditation is fasting for the mind. So if you have too many distractions, it leads to a heavy mind. Your, your mind is going into all these places and ultimately like, you gotta like, take a step back and say, all right, my mind is a muscle. I work it out a lot. You know, I work, I work out with my mind a lot. I read, I listen to podcasts, I listen to books, I read books. I'm constantly learning. But at what point is it too much? And at what point do I need to actually take a break and rest my mind from too much learning? And I think that's one of the things with this where it's like we just go so hard sometimes or we're not going so hard. And it, it's all these distractions that are leading to that heavy mind. And so that he, he provides this way of escape where he says meditation is fasting for the mind, which actually think meditation could be good. I haven't tried it yet, but meditation is fasting for the mind. I think also just taking just a couple minutes of silence every day, or just not like letting your mind to wander, like just not thinking, if that. That's even possible. Just like, not just kind of like decompressing your mind, I think would also be good. Number 35 says the ability to singularly focus is related to the ability to lose yourself and be present, happy and more effective. The whole thing here is the yeah, again he's saying the ability to focus is related to that, that ability to be present. You know, lose yourself and being present, like lose yourself in the presence, like be present. And that will make you more happy and more effective. But it's all with focus. This is the whole thing with focus. Number 36. The older you get, the more the ACU, the accumulation of habits matter. It's the whole thing with James clear of and 1% every single day getting better. 1%. I saw this chart and I think I've talked about it before, but if you do the 1% every day you get 37% better in a year. If you don't, you actually get 3% worse in a year if you get 1% worse. And that's what that leads to. And so I think it's really interesting, the older you get, it's that compound knowledge. And also not only the compound knowledge, but you have that compound knowledge and you have the habits. The habits matter. The compound knowledge matters. It's the whole thing with the easy choices, hard life, hard choices, easy life and making priorities for it. 1% every day, you want to get 1% better every day. And ultimately over 10 years, 37% times 10, 370% better. Think that's how that math works. Three hundred and seventy percent better in 10 years than you were at the start. That's a good payoff and that's something that everyone should be looking forward to. The next thing is the mind is a muscle. It can be trained and conditioned every time. This is with discipline. This is the whole thing with discipline. You can discipline your mind to like go, like to abstain from social media, or you can train your mind to do all these things or to do less of things. And it, it's a whole, like your mind is a muscle. It can be trained, it can be conditioned. And I think the idea of that is also really cool. Another thing Naval says is the greatest superpower is the ability to change yourself. Being able to admit that you were wrong or being able to admit that hey, my thinking wasn't actually good in this, let me change, I, I'm totally wrong. And he also says mistakes become obvious in hindsight. After asking the question, when you're 30, what advice would you give your 22 year old self? And I think it's the whole thing with this, like what would you tell yourself 10 years ago? Well ultimately what you say then or what you say now to your 22 year old self is actually a way of saying what you want to do. Right now in some ways. So for me, you know, what could I tell my, you know, like five, like five years ago, what could I tell myself? Well, read more. Well, that's also what I want to do right now. I want to read more now, you know, because I'm just realizing the power of reading in my life now. And so I'm going to be doing that for the rest of my life and that's what I want to do. But if I could have told my 10 year old self that or my 12 year old self that or my 15 year old self that I would have done that from then. But you know, again, you like the mistakes become obvious in hindsight. 39. You become your habits. This is really important because people don't realize that, but you do become your habits. If you eat like junk, you become junk. If you put good food in your body, you feel better. If you, you know, whatever habits you have, if you read more, you're going to get that compound interest in your mind, which means you're going to know more and you're going to have more knowledge and be smarter. The, the thing is with you become your habits. 40. Commit externally to enough people to enforce an identity. This is the whole thing with habits. You know, you got to make sure that you have accountability and you want to commit externally to enough people to say, hey, I'm going to break or enforce this identity or I'm going to break this habit to enforce this new identity that I want to become. I think James Clear says something like, you know, there's a difference between the person that says, I'm a recovering smoker or I still smoke but I try not to do it. Someone or I think the other one is I don't smoke anymore, but I used to. There's totally different things in each one of those because one is assuming, hey, I am a smoker but I'm trying to quit. One is saying, oh, I'm, you know. The other one, the last one that I talked about is saying, oh, I was a smoker. There's a difference between I am and I was because those are two different identity shifts. Um, and that's one thing that you see with this 41. Do something as quickly as you can with your full attention. Then be patient with your results. It's again going back to focus. Do something as quickly as you can with your full attention. Then be patient. So do something quick. Be patient about those results. You're going to do something fast. It's about, you know, founder mentality. Do something Quick, possible fail fast. But then once you fail fast, be patient with those results, see what actually works, and then go back at it again. 42. Set up systems, not goals. That is a quote from Scott Adams and that was something that Naval talked about in his book, Set Up Systems, Not Goals. A clever brain can choose its upcoming environment so you can thrive and be successful. That's the whole thing with, you know, again, choosing your environment. That's Vanessa Van Edwards. She talks about, you know, if you, you're better in a coffee shop or better in an office or better here or better there, when you're trying to talk to someone, then do it at that location so you're actually more comfortable there so you can thrive and be successful. And that's what Naval is saying here. A clever brain can choose its upcoming environment so you can thrive and be successful. And that's amazing. I totally agree with that. And that's something that everyone should be looking towards or forward to when they're going to talk with someone or just being, you know, successful. Do you work better at home or in an office? Does it make you more successful or do you thrive more at home or at an office when you work? Right. 43. Everyone's motivated at something. You just have to find the thing that you're into. Again, I like this because he used the, you know, he used the whole thing with gamers. He said that gamers are motivated to play video games, but they're not motivated to do other things. So they, they might be really into that. The thing is, and people look down upon that and, you know, it's really interesting. But everyone is motivated at something. They're motivated to do something. You just really have to find the thing you're into. And it might take, you know, 10, 20 years, it might cape, it might take a couple decades, but you know that you are in. If you know that you are into something, then go pursue that and see where it takes you. 44. Do two things. Read for the sake of it and develop the skill of persuasion. He talked about this reading for the. The sake, reading for the sake of it. So read to read and develop the skill of persuasion. That's the whole thing with people learning body language, all this. But being able to persuade people is also going to help you in life. Courage isn't charging into a machine gun nest. Courage is not caring what other people think. This is great because again, this is from Naval courage. Isn't that. I'm gonna go, yeah, it's. It's not. Courage isn't Saying, hey, I'll go in front of everyone and take fire. Instead it's saying, hey, how do we all get out of here alive? And how do we strategically get out of here alive? And ulta. And again, if it came to it, I would take fire. But how do we do this to the point and that. That's more military content. But again, courage isn't charging into a machine gun nest. Courage is not caring what other people think. 46. Value your time. Do not waste it. Again, it's the whole thing about time. I somewhat agree with him on this. The whole thing with time is that I still think, you know, be friendly to people. Go out, go to go talk with people. Go, be interested. Be, you know, you know, be interested, be interesting. In order to be interesting, be interested. That's ultimately the same. But. But, you know, value your time. Yes, but. And don't waste it. Yes, but be friendly, be kind. And also go out there. Right. 47. A Taste of Freedom can make you unemployable. This is really founders founder level, right? Founder mentality, entrepreneur mentality. The people that we study, Elon Musk, Walt Disney, once they get this taste of freedom, like financial freedom or freedom from their job, freedom to do what they want, they. They like. They say, oh, well, I don't like, I don't want to work here. I want to go do what I love to do. And it can make you unemployable. And I think that's just a really funny quote or maxim because I. I do see that. 48. To find a worthy mate, be worthy of a worthy mate. I wrote this down because this reminded me of Doug Wilson, funny enough. It's. It's that whole idea of be, you know, if you want to. It's really funny because naval went through like, just a quick thing on like, like finding, you know, a partner or a spouse or whoever. And he was talking about Charlie Munger, um, and it. And Charlie Munger said to find a worthy mate, be worthy of a worthy mate. And that reminded me of Doug Wilson, who also said, be the type of person. Oh, man. It's a. It's a really good line I'm trying to remember. It's like, marry or be the type of person that the type of person would want to marry or something like that, where it's the whole idea of the person that you want to marry, make sure that they would want to marry the type of person that you would want to marry. Or it's this whole, like, line. But it's ultimately what Charlie Munger is saying, right, to find a worthy mate, be worthy of a worthy mate. It's that whole idea. And I think it's really interesting. And I think, you know, I like Doug's a little bit better, but I, that just reminded me of that. And that's number 48. Number 49. I always spent money on books. I never viewed that as an expense. That's an investment to me. Something that I really like is it reminds me of, you know, me a little bit because I like buying books, I spend money on books. And again, I don't really view it as a expense and I, I should be viewing it as an investment. And I, I love buying books. I think I have like 86 books on just like, or 90 books now just on like founders, entrepreneurs, ideas, thoughts, discipline, all these things. And it's actually some of my favorite books to read. Some people are like, well, do you like, you know, fiction or do you like this or like that? It's like, no, I actually really like reading these books. They're, they're fun to me and I really like learning about people. Number 50. Praise specifically. Criti. Criticize generally. This is from Warren Buffett. And the interesting thing is when he was saying this is like when someone goes astray or someone's in a business or something like that, praise them specifically. Like, hey, good job at doing X or like, good job at doing Y. But when you're criticizing them, criticize generals. Like, well, you didn't do this like certain thing, but not like real. Don't do it so specific that it's criticizing specific because you don't want to give them general praise and then criticize specifically. You want to pray specifically and then criticize generally. And that was just really interesting because I think that would be a really good business tactic. And this comes from Warren Buffett, who, you know, is very fascinating. And so we have come to the end of 50 maxims. 50 maxims. We got through 50 minus 12. That is 38. We got through 38 maxims in this 40 minute episode. 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