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A Calm Mind, a Fit Body, a House Full of Love

Naval

Naval Ravikant

Business, Technology

4.82.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2019

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

When you're finally wealthy, you'll realize it wasn't what you were seeking in the first place.

When you're wealthy, you'll realize it wasn't what you were seeking 0:00

A calm mind, a fit body and a house full of love must be earned 1:00

Practical advice for a calmer internal state 1:52

A lot of divorces happen over money, a lot of battles happen over internal anger 3:14

Transcript: http://nav.al/finally-wealthy

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0:00.0

The last tweet on the topic of working for the long term is that when you're finally wealthy,

0:05.3

you'll realize that it wasn't what you were seeking in the first place, but that's for another day.

0:11.0

That's a multi-hour topic in of itself. First of all, I just thought it was a really clever way

0:14.9

to end the whole thing because it disarms a whole set of people who'd say, well, yeah, what's the

0:19.1

point of getting rich? Because there are a lot of people who just like the status signal, virtue

0:23.2

signal, against the idea of wealth creation or making money. So it was just a good way to disarm

0:28.2

all of them, but it's also true in that the things that you really want in life, yes, money will

0:35.0

solve all your money problems, but it doesn't get you everywhere. The first thing you'll realize when

0:39.4

you've made a bunch of money is that you're still the same person. If you're happy, you're happy,

0:43.6

if you're unhappy, you're unhappy, if you're calm and fulfilled and peaceful, you're still that same

0:48.5

person. I know lots of very rich people who are extremely out of shape. I know lots of rich people

0:54.0

who have really bad family lives. I know lots of rich people who are internally a mess. So I would

0:59.8

lean on another tweet that I put out, which is actually when I think back on it, I think it's my

1:04.7

favorite tweet of mine. It's not initially the most insightful. It's not initially the most helpful.

1:10.7

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

1:14.7

truth in there that it just resonates and that is that a calm mind, a fit body, and a house full of

1:20.6

these things cannot be bought. They must be earned. Even if you have all the money in the world,

1:24.8

you can't have those three things. Jeff Bezos still has to work out. He still has to work in his

1:29.2

marriage or whatever his next relationship is. And his internal mental state is still going to be

1:34.4

very much not controlled by external events. It's going to be based on how calm and peaceful he's

1:39.0

inside. So I think those three things, your health, your mental health, and your close relationships

1:45.4

are things that you have to cultivate and can probably bring you a lot more peace and happiness

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