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Gonna delay the newsletter by a day. Scrapped the whole thing cause it didn't feel right. Writing it again.

On lines of this topic, I am also talking about something in tomorrow's newsletter: There's an emptiness we feel after any kind of pleasure - it can be from instant gratification or achieving something in life. The happiness never lasts forever. Many people see this as a problem - and hence the notion of "be happy with what you have". Of course, it's important to be happy with just being yourself. But the whole emptiness we feel and our desire for more, isn't a problem. It's evolutionarily necessary to make sure that you never stop striving for more. If you did stop, you wouldn't survive. So, stop seeing it as a fucking problem. Use it to your benefit by working toward your goals.

I think it is the realization that nothing outside of yourself will make you fully happy. But as a human you have a purpose and reaching your goals brings you fulfillment and keeps you on your track. It's a fine balance and depends upon many different factors, where we are in our state of mind and what is our true purpose in life

2 days back, I tweeted this: "Felling shitty is a call for action. If you could feel good without doing anything, you would never reach your goals." The moment I wrote it, I knew someone will say: "Happiness is a choice. You can choose the feel good now." Guess what? I did get a similar response. And here's the truth that took me a long time to realize: There's a massive difference between joy of being and joy of doing (or rather achieving). The fulfillment you get from achieving something cannot be replaced with "happiness is a choice". Of course, you should be able to stay happy in the moment. But it's not enough. if it was, you would never reach your goals.

You lose your ability to endure pain when you try to fight your mind's internal resistance. Don't fight your mind. You'll lose your energy and willpower. Find ways to reduce the internal resistance. Enduring pain of action will become the easy part.

Working on tomorrow's newsletter. It's almost ready. As promised, it will on how to quit any habit in 5 steps. Might remove a step or 2 if I find it necessary. From next email, I'll probably go back to sharing specific insights instead of broad actionable steps. You can sign up and read the previous letters here: https://basedlibrary.com/letters/

I read once that suffering carves out the hollow where love can fill. Pain and growth tend to dance together for this reason. Loving and letting go are not opposites but near-synonyms— In love, we hold-on In equal measure to letting-go.

Next newsletter will be on how to quit any habit in 3-4 steps. I had to contemplate a lot on this... to create a framework that will work for (almost) everyone. It won't be just 5 random strategies. Rather a carefully crafted step by step framework.

Really enjoyed that, some good ideas I will be using Monday. 💡

If you missed yesterday's email, you can now read it here: https://basedlibrary.com/how-to-work-like-a-machine-without-coffee-or-adderall/

I cannot believe the numbers tbh. 6.8% in 1 fucking minute

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Working on tomorrow's newsletter. As promised, I'll share how I work/write for 2.5-5 hours without having to stop and think for too long. You can sign up and read the previous letters here: http://basedlibrary.com/letters/

Part of how phones work is that they take you outside of yourself and put you in a dissociative state. If you are outside of your body and in a fantasy land your brain thinks it's taking action but your body is still and wasting away. Action solves everything. Great post.

The next step is always the RIGHT step. Next move, always the right move. This is common in the mindset of champion endurance athletes like Goggins, or harkens back to Zen Buddhist, Bushido, and Taoist Philosophy. Everything is in flux, including you yourself. The mind follows the body, they call this in neuroscience: embodied cognition. If you're stuck mentally, you stay at home, become lazy, eat junkfood, watch porn, masturbate — your body is stuck. And this hardens the mental mud, even more. Mind to body, body to mind, and so forth. Your lifestyle should be designed like a wheel. The wheel has to stay ever in motion; some mud gets stuck between it, you gotta keep moving, it is the momentum that unsticks it all. And you know this in your gut, you feel this, to be very very true. Every time you were stuck. Financially, emotionally, physically, anything. You just did ONE single thing, the next step, and your mind was that much more looser, calmer, it eased up.

Seen a lot of "live each day as if it was your last", indeed a powerful mindset that I respect Yet I much prefer "Live each day as if it was a miracle"

Agree with this. Greatest lesson I learnt from being around narcissists and psychopaths in business and in life is that you never listen to what’s been said or infer an intention behind it. It’s naive and if you look for good intent or listen to the explanation from a compulsive liar you’ll be easily manipulated. You look at the actions only. Remove any emotion you have and look at what they did how they did it and go off that evidence alone.