Pareto Path

Some maxims I found generally useful for life are below.

• Death, Aging, Arguments and Illness are not escapable. For each, what would be your ideal way of encountering and dealing with it?
• That which you most need to find will be found in the place you least wish to look (Jung).
• You only control your thoughts and actions, nothing else. Stop trying to control others.
• Desire is discontent: when you stop desiring, you reach peace.
• Look at actions and outcomes to understand true motivation, not the inverse.
• Perspective and framing is most of what matters, almost no matter the circumstances. If Frankl finds peace in Auschwitz, you can find it in the 21^st century. All you have to do is look.
• Health is the optimal metric: financial, physical and mental.
• You aren’t your thoughts.

For other deep thinkers that offer a lot of value, I recommend the following:

• Sam Harris: lucidity, clear insights, thoughtful contemplation
• The Stoics (Socrates, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius): rationality, logic and facing the truth of life.
• Benjamin Franklin: original thinker and tinkerer.
• Goethe: Germany’s Franklin.
• Richard Feynman: First Principles Thinking.
• Confucius: great one-liners.
• Charlie Munger: profound psychological insight and wit.
• Nassim Taleb: unorthodox thinking, contrarian and out-of-the-box framing.
• Naval Ravikant: wealth, health and happiness.
• Mark Manson: giving a f*ck about the right things.
• Shane Parrish: clear thinking, mental models and more.
• James Clear: habit formation.

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