Naval
for Kids
Things your school & parents won’t teach you.
By Thiyagarajan Maruthavanan
Managing Partner, Upekkha
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How to find your game?
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Pick what feels like play to you but looks like work to others.
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Keep redefining what you do �until you find what you love to do.
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Find your �‘Game Player One’ fit.
I am the number One player in world.
Play that I enjoy.
Game the world likes to pay for.
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Winner
Zero-sum games have�winners and losers.
Loser
Most sports are like that.
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Pick a positive-sum game.
That is called a win-win.
Avoid a zero-sum game; it creates conflict.
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Are zero-sum games. Avoid them.
Politics
Academia
Status
Applause now, emptiness later.
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Gambling
Timing cycle or trend
Buy & Sell stocks daily
Are negative-sum games. They are much worse.
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Investing in family, wealth, health, peace, & knowledge are positive-sum games.
Pain now, gain later.
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An individual's values, a company's mission, & a nation's constitution attract long-term players.
Attract long-term players!
Pick something and stand for it.
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One that
makes you money.
One that
keeps you fit.
One that
Keeps you creative.
Pick 3 hobbies:
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How to win �in your games?
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In negotiations, �whoever cares less wins.
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In games that involve betting, don’t get killed.
Don’t play Russian roulette.
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Nature has made most of us for frequent, visible, and small wins,
blind to infrequent, hidden, death-like risks.
Don’t pick pennies that can lead you to disaster.
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Founders bleed every day, but when they win, they win big.
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Diet, Workouts, etc.
Consistency is the key
Linear
domain
Therefore, build systems and habits.
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Investments, Relationships, etc.
Double down after �conviction
Non-linear �domain
Once you find the right friend, partner, or investments, then go after them.
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How to improve the
quality of your life?
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For a happy life, retain a sense of wonder.
Be curious.
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One path to a happy life is to retain a sense of wonder.
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An overscheduled life is a misery.
Keep as much free time on your calendar as possible.
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To know your quality of life, simply do nothing and see how it feels.
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The quality of your mind decides the quality of your life.
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Good life is:
UNDERSTANDING
FREEDOM FROM CARE
EFFORTLESS SELF-DISCIPLINE
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How to be �healthy?
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Set priorities in the following order:
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A healthy man wants a thousand things. A sick man only wants one.
-Confucius
Health
Happiness
Money
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FUTURE ?
NOW
Take care �of your health, and �don’t worry too much.
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CALM
PRESENT
BREATH
Move your body, rest your mind.
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Have a cold bath.
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Be more with people, less with screens.
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Science knows little about nutrition and diet, yet it's more polarized than politics & religion.
It’s better to Listen to your grandma than a doctor or science when it comes to nutrition. #Lindy
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Question
Approve
New Observations
New Daydreams
Test to Prove Wrong
How Science works
Observe
Do
Survive Time
Propel
How Wisdom works
Reminder on #Lindy from #TalebForKids.
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#TalebForKids
Adding
By Subtracting
In medicine and nutrition, remove before adding.
Life improves by reducing.
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Do intermittent fasting to improve physical health.
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The world's simplest diet: the more processed the food, the less one should consume.
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How to be happy?
Is it that hard?
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You cannot give or take happiness. �It is a choice.
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Happiness comes from being satisfied with what you have.
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Phone
Calendar
Clock
You can get time and happiness by reducing 3 things:
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Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy freedom.
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Those who live below enjoy freedom that people busy changing goal posts cannot understand.
Moving Goal Post
Live Below Means
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Happiness without material comfort is playing on hard mode.
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Don’t worry about status
Be Curious
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How to train your habits?
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The greatest superpower is the ability to change yourself.
New �Goals
Old Habits
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Changing habits:
Pick one thing. Cultivate a desire. Visualise it.
Plan a sustainable path.
Identify needs, triggers, and substitutes.
Tell your friends.
Track meticulously.
Self-discipline is a bridge to a new self-image.
Bake in the new self-image. It’s who you are, now.
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When building habits, choose consistency over content.
The best book is the one you can’t put down.
The best exercise is the one you enjoy doing every day.
The best health food is the one you find tasty.
The best work is the work you’d do for free.
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How to choose? The best superpower of humans.
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If you can’t decide, the answer is no.
Pick the hardest choice now
HARD NOW
EASY NOW
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How to convince someone?
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How to convince someone?
Remember the keyword, CLASSR, taught by Robert Cialdini.
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Consistency
The burning desire to be trustworthy forces people to be consistent with what they do. Use that to convince others.
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Liking
Most say yes to those they like. Be likable.
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Authority
Authority figures convince people. Say it with confidence.
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Scarcity
When in short supply, it becomes valuable. Reduce the time with your loving parent and see what happens.
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Social Proof
Humans like to follow crowds and seek validation in the choices of others. Why we go to restaurants that have a queue outside?
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Reciprocity
People feel an obligation to return a favor. Before you ask someone something, give a gift.
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How to build your brand?
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Brand = Recall
How are you�remembered?
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Input�(Resources)
Activities
Output
Outcome
It is outcome (perceived), not output (what you did).
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How do you get world to notice?
What do you say and do?
How do you do this?
Why are you doing this?
You have to stand for something and be consistent.
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How to read?
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Don’t feel the obligation to finish any book.
Find the 100 best books for yourself and read them again and again.
Read only what you love.
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How to �become lucky?
Wait, can you really do that?
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Hope luck finds you.
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Go to places where luck finds you.
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Prepare your mind and be sensitive to chances.
Become the world's best at one game, and chance will find you.
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Blind �luck
Motion luck
Spotting luck
Crazy luck
Alexander Fleming
Next Sachin Tendulkar
Deep Sea
Diver
Lottery Winner
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3
4
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How to find your �Magic Wand �(leverage)?
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In an older society with few resources and mechanical work, the scheduled life is the most productive.
In a modern society with permissionless leverage and creative work, the unscheduled life is the most productive.
Then
Now
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Engineers are leveraged creatives who generate repeatable solutions to practical problems.
Engineering automation increases leverage, productivity, and the scope of problems that engineers can tackle.
Until we become Gods, society has an unlimited demand for creative engineers.
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You won't get rich renting out your time.
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In an age of permissionless leverage, judgement, not work, determines success and failure.
Good judgment is the product of a calm and curious mind, reasoning without motivation and attachment.
Whatever strengthens your ego weakens your judgement and, ultimately, your success.
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Both true.
In an age of leverage, one correct decision can win everything.
Without hard work, you‘ll develop neither judgement nor leverage.
Incentive bias skews us towards saying it’s overrated.
To offset that bias, work harder.
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Keep changing your objective until it arrives at your specific knowledge, skill sets, position, capabilities, location, and interests. Your objectives and skills should converge to make you number one.
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How to ask?
And what advice to ignore?
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Reject most advice.
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It is the mark of a charlatan to explain a simple concept in a complex way.
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Most advice is�people giving you their winning lottery ticket numbers.
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How does a school help? �It doesn’t.
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If the primary purpose of school was education, the Internet would have obsoleted it. But school is mainly about credentialing.
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Schools are prisons for the lucky kids, and prisons are schools for the unlucky kids.
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The overeducated are worse off than the undereducated, having traded common sense for the illusion of knowledge.
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Thanks for
Reading!
Connect at thiyagarajan@upekkha.in
@avnish.
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