In the modern age, the quality of the decision you make is everything because we're all leverage.

You can be leverage to code, community, media, capital, labor, etc.

If you're a smart person, every decision you make these days, you're leveraging it in some way.

And so the quality of your decision making is more important than anything else.

If Warren Buffett makes the right decision 85% of the time and his competitors make it right,

65 or 70% of the time, Buffett's gonna win everything.

That's the source of his strength, good decision making.

He makes one decision a year to it most.

Most of the time he's sitting around reading books, thinking hard,

reading S1's playing bridge, traveling, golfing, etc.

Obviously hard work is not the solution, good decision making and high leverage is the solution.

Having a peaceful mind, being a happier person, relying less on momentary pleasure and being

calmer in general will allow you to have the frame of mind where you make better decisions and will

actually increase your effectiveness.

As long as the increase in effectiveness is higher than the reduction in drive you're well off.

Finally, I would say, do you want to be the best in the world by working the hardest

or do you want to be the best in the world who worked the least for it, right?

Who worked the most intelligently for it?

If you were an amnesty and omnipotent being, imagine you were the universal God for a moment.

Then, just by pushing a butterfly in one direction or just by snapping your fingers,

you would know exactly how the particles would collide from there on out,

that would change everything in the universe, you could get anything done.

...