44 Harsh Truths About Human Nature - Naval Ravikant - #922

Happiness is being satisfied with what you have. Success comes from dissatisfaction. Is success worth it, then? Oof. I'm not sure that statement is true anymore.

Like I made that statement a long time ago. And a lot of these things are just notes to myself and they're highly contextual. They come in the moment, they leave in the moment. Uh uh happiness, okay. So very complicated topic, but I always like the Socrates story where he goes into the marketplace and they show him all these luxuries and fineries and he says How many things there are in this world that I do not want. Right. And that's a form of freedom. So not wanting something is as good as having it. in the old story with Alexander Dionysius, right? Alexander goes out and conquers the world and he meets Dionysius, who's living in a barrel, and Dionysius says, Get out of the way, you're blocking my son.

And Alexander says, Oh, how I wish I You know, could be like Dionysus in the next life and Dynasty says, that's the difference. I don't wish that I could sorry, Diogenes. Diogenes. Diogenes says I w I I don't wish to be Alexander. So two paths to Happiness and uh one path is to success. You get what you want, you satisfy your material needs, or like Diogenes, you just don't want in the first place.

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