1️⃣ You’re Going to Die Soon, So Enjoy Yourself and Do Your Work
2️⃣ Accept Your Battles, You Need Them
3️⃣ When Everyone Cuts Corners, Integrity Pays
4️⃣ Owning Your Choices is the Highest Virtue
5️⃣ Don’t Fix Your Weaknesses, Enhance Your Strengths
6️⃣ Hard Work is Less Taxing Than a Leisurely Existential Crisis
7️⃣ If Something Scares You, Do It Over and Over Again
8️⃣ Read
9️⃣ Bored People Waste Their Own Time; They’ll Waste Yours
🔟 Talent Density Beats Talent Mass
I’ve been asked about these “Riaz-isms” many times. I almost always recommend one book The Almanack of Naval Ravikant. I’ve rarely found a text that so directly reflects my learnings in life. Read it.