Eric Jorgenson

He started reading the most of the happiness canon is this Eastern Buddhism and things like that.

Desire is a contract you make with yourself to be unhappy and to get what you want.

It's a modern phrasing of a Buddhist idea that type A business people like us immediately identify with.

And it identifies like if you set yourself a goal, which we are all doing constantly, unconsciously, probably hundreds of times a day, um, especially if you're on social media, Instagram in particular seems like this bottomless well of desire creation.

Uh, of course you're going to be unhappy.

And if you can learn the discipline of having few desires carefully chosen his words, uh,

that you spend a lot more time being content, being happy, not feeling lesser, not waiting for some future state where you have something that you don't yet have, which is like a very natural human tendency.

But you can make just as much progress and maybe more by just like not holding a strong burning desire that is like making you unhappy every minute until you've achieved something.

Nevault cites the great Buffett as like using the energy plus intelligence plus integrity as like the formula for a successful partner and somebody that you want to work with or invest in.

I mean, Munger and Buffett are like

the partnership that everybody aspires to, right?

Like great friends, phone call every day, you know, 60 year zero fight partnership.

And Buffett is track record is investing in CEOs and abdicating entirely to them.

And so like, you got to be a really good people picker when that's your strategy.

And so I think that's, you know, a perfectly great formula to emulate.

I think they go together for some people.

I think some people, there's a balance of like for some people, it's easier to achieve your material desires.

And for some people, it's easier to lower them or dismiss them.

And Naval's got a great line.

It's maybe like the ultimate Naval line, which is the true test of intelligence is whether you get what you want out of life.