Envy is the Enemy of Happiness

Life is not hard or complicated. However, we do our best to make it so.

The enemy of peace of mind is expectations drilled into you by society and other people.

One of the things Naval tried to get rid of is the the word ‘should’. As whenever the word ‘should’ creeps up in your mind, it’s guilt or social programming.

Doing something because you should essentially means you don’t want to do it.

Doing things when you don’t want to do them makes you miserable, that’s the reason for eliminating as many ‘shoulds’ as possible.

We are social creatures the same as ants and bees, we are externally programmed and driven. However this puts us at odds with the fact the life is a single player game with an internal scorecard.

You are born and will die alone. You are gone in three generations, and nobody cares. Before you showed up, nobody cared.

Warren Buffett know’s this fact of life well. He has a great question he asks to highlight this to people.

Would you want to be the world’s best lover and known as the worst, or the world’s worst lover and known as the best?

Life is a single player game with an internal scorecard.

This is perhaps a reason why yoga and meditation are hard to sustain is they have no extrinsic value. They are purely single player games.