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From 2/10 to 9/10 : Learn How to Hack Happiness with Naval Ravikant
4 min readApr 29, 2024
Are you tired of chasing happiness? What if it wasn’t something to chase, but a skill to be learned? Naval Ravikant, angel investor and entrepreneur, shares his unique perspective on happiness, outlining practical steps you can take to cultivate more joy in your everyday life.
1. Happiness is a skill that can be learned.
- Over the years, Naval went from a 2/10 to 9/10 in happiness. Happiness... is a highly personal skill that can be learned, like fitness or nutrition.
2. Happiness is a choice.
- Nature has no concept of happiness or unhappiness.You’re born, you have a whole set of sensory experiences and then you die.
- How you choose to interpret them is up to you - its your choice.
3. Happiness is when nothing is missing.
- It’s when you remove the sense that something is missing from your life.We constantly walk around thinking: “I need this, I need that"Which keeps us trapped in unhappiness.
4. Happiness is the absence of desire.
- "Desire is a contract you make with…
