2022.01.20
Found a good book, "The ALMANACK OF NAVAL RAVIKANT", unfortunately only in english original, try to translate and understand.
The following is a section of THE ALMANACK OF NAVAL RAVIKANT.
For example, there’s another Angel in Silicon Valley named Elad Gil who I like to do deals with.
For example, another angel in Silicon Valley, whom I like to deal with, is called Elad Gil.
I love working with Elad because I know when the deal is being done, he will bend over backward to give me extra.
He will always round off in my favor if there’s an extra dollar being delivered here or there.
If there’s some cost to pay, he will pay it out of his own pocket, and he won’t even mention it to me.
Because he goes so far out of his way to treat me so well, I send him every deal I have—I try to include him in everything.
Then, I go out of my way to try and pay for him. Compounding in those relationships is very valuable.
I love working with Elad because I know he'll bend back to give me extra money when the deal is done.
If extra dollars are delivered here or there, he will always give me the profit.
If there is any fee to pay, he pays for it himself, and he doesn't tell me.
Because he was very nice to me, I sent him all my deals – I tried to suck him into everything.
Then, I went out of my way to pay for him. Compound interest is very valuable in these relationships.
Intentions don’t matter. Actions do. That’s why being ethical is hard.
Intention is not important, action is important. That's why it's hard to say that ethics is important.
When you find the right thing to do, when you find the right people to work with, invest deeply.
Sticking with it for decades is really how you make the big returns in your relationships and in your money. So, compound interest is very important.
Invest deeply when you find the right things to do, when you find the right people to work with.
Long-term investing is indeed how you reap great rewards in relationships and money. Therefore, compound interest is very important.
99% of effort is wasted.
99% of all efforts were in vain.
Obviously, nothing is ever completely wasted because it’s all a learning moment. You can learn from anything.
But for example, when you go back to school, 99 percent of the term papers you did, books you read, exercises you did, things you learned, they don’t really apply.
You might have read geography and history you never reuse. You might have studied a language you don’t speak anymore. You might have studied a branch of mathematics you completely forgot.
Obviously, nothing is completely wasted, because it's all a moment of learning. You can learn from anything.
But, for example, when you go back to school, 99% of the term papers, the books you read, the exercises you do, what you learn, they don't really apply.
You may have read geography and history that was never used again. You've probably learned a language you don't say anymore. You may have learned a completely forgotten branch of mathematics.
Of course, these are learning experiences. You did learn.
You learned the value of hard work; you might have learned something that went deep into your psyche and became a piece of what you’re doing now.
But at least when it comes to the goaloriented life, only about 1 percent of the efforts you made paid off.
Of course, these are learning experiences that you have learned.
You've learned the value of hard work, and you've probably learned something that goes deep inside you and becomes part of what you're doing right now.
But at least in a goal-oriented life, only about 1% of the effort you make pays off.
Here are today's reading notes******
The more people who lack money, the more they can't rush to make 'money', but they should reflect on why they have been short of money! If a person can't make money for a long time, it means that what is missing is not opportunity and capital, but the thinking and ability to earn wealth, so first make up for this defect of their own, as long as they have the ability and thinking to earn wealth, even if they are now a dick, they can also counterattack and flip
In the face of negative emotions, we are not going to fight them and destroy them. Rather, it is to acknowledge their existence, to accept them, and to live in harmony with positive emotions.
A person should experience from a young age, have the opportunity to self-manage and spontaneously do things, and feel the relationship between subjective initiative and results. Then you have ideas, you have plans, you act.
Staying proactive, enthusiastic and energetic is about building momentum for a long life.
We are the sun, we have absolute internal drive, we want to give the child an example, the child's everything is learned from us.
Being an adult, male or female, gentleness is a particularly valuable quality. There are so many rotten things in life, everyone is so tired, it is not a good thing to open the news, and you can be gentle with yourself to others, how hopeful and loving and powerful you have to be able to do it!
A lot of things produce value, and it takes N components to be realized. The vision of ordinary people, if they can't generate value immediately, have no interest in doing it. Spontaneous explorers, usually spontaneously prepared a lot of highly combined components with interest, and when the environment changes, they will continue to find that they can connect and combine with other n-1 external components in unexpected places to produce unexpected value, and then they will "get rich in a vacuum".
Here's today's essay*****
Yesterday, jump rope, only jumped 52, very guilty.
Why?
Because, after drinking, I couldn't jump.
You're just thinking of a thousand excuses on the road not to drink, but there will always be someone who gives you a reason you can't refuse.
The big boss, the big boss, came over with a glass of wine to toast: Feng Zong, come, pour it, I did it, you are at will.
Can I really not drink or feel free?
Silly dicks are casual.
I salute one more, and it is also a dry mouth.
These are the gold lords, and the key is that you can't turn down people, more than one or two.
So down the lap, the wine, there is more. Zhang Yu five-star brandy, great staying power.
There is also a small episode, Ying Er drank too much, came to sit down next to me halfway, I don't know if I sat on the thigh, anyway, many people coaxed.
Last time, I had a drink with a few of them, and Ying Er was there, and when I came home, I found that I had a red lip print on the left side of my face.
Scared me to death.
Later, I recalled that Ying Er also painted lipstick of this color that day.
When you get home, snap the mirror and see if there are any lip prints on your face.
It hurts, not about yourself, it's about time.
Rope, can't jump, can't read and learn.
The key is that we are not strong enough, if we are strong enough, we can say no to most people.
I was thinking, what is freedom?
Freedom is when you can say no to what you don't want to do.
End *******Continue tomorrow********