yego.me
💡 Stop wasting time. Read Youtube instead of watch. Download Chrome Extension

Pick one desire at a time and pick it carefully


less than 1m read
·Nov 3, 2024

You know, if you there's the old saying, like, if you love what you do, you'll never work a day in your life. It's a little exaggerated; it's more aspirational. Of course, there's all kinds of things you're going to have to do that you don't necessarily want to do in the short term, but it's for a greater cause, for a mission that you believe in.

But I would say definitely, you know, this all comes out of desire. We want certain things; we make sacrifices to get those things. You can basically get anything you want out of life as long as it's one thing. That's my learning. If you want to be, you know, rich, you can be rich. You're going to spend your entire life trying to be rich; that's what you're going to work on.

You want to be happy? You can spend your entire life being happy; you'll get it. That's what you'll work on. The problem happens when we have multiple desires, when we have fuzzy desires, when we sort of want to do ten different things, and we're not clear about which is the one that we care about.

I would suggest that you basically pick one fervent desire that you have above all else. Find a way to reach that desire where it doesn't feel like work. You enjoy the thing that you're doing so much, and on a general high level basis, that it won't feel like work. Then you'll outcompete everybody else.

More Articles

View All
How to Achieve Any GOAL
Everyone wants to be rich, happy, healthy, have amazing friends, and a beautiful family. Most people think that in order to get all of them, you need to get lucky. Well, most people are wrong. Okay? And you are not like most people. Welcome to Alux, the …
Food and energy in organisms | Middle school biology | Khan Academy
Hey, quick question for you. You ever look at a person’s baby pictures and wonder how people go from being small to, well, big? I mean, yes, I get it; people grow up, but here I’m thinking more on the level of the atoms and molecules that make up the body…
Examples establishing conditions for MVT
This table gives us a few values of the function g, so we know what g of x is equal to at these values right over here: x is equal to negative 2, negative 1, 0, and 1. It says Raphael said that since g of 1 minus g of 0 over 1 minus 0 is equal to negative…
Best Ways to Get SMARTER Online - Best Self Improvement Websites
Never before in the history of the world have we had such an opportunity to become knowledgeable with the Internet. There is an infinite amount of knowledge that you can soak in. You can become super humanly intelligent; yet for some reason, most of us sq…
Caesar, Cleopatra and the Ides of March | World History | Khan Academy
[Instructor] Where we left off in the last video, we saw Julius Caesar had conquered Gaul as proconsul. And, near the end of his term as proconsul, the senators in Rome were afraid of him. He was this popular, populist, charismatic figure; he had just had…
Psychology of money part 2 | Financial goals | Financial Literacy | Khan Academy
So let’s talk about a few more biases that might creep in when we start thinking about money. One is an anchor bias. Now, an anchor bias is where if initially you think something is worth more, say, and then all of a sudden you find out that it costs less…