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Happy and Successful. Really?
I don’t care about the Billionaire Club. I don’t care who is making it big in the Silicon Valley or exiting Big Tech. Very few rich people’s lives interest me.
I haven’t read the 5AM club or Rich Dad, Poor Dad. I’m not interested in productivity tips, getting super rich, or hustle culture. Instead, my aim is to activate my creativity, keep a sustainable level of personal success, and find contentment.
But with any personal success comes the burden of thriving in the mainstream. For example, I want to be a successful writer. And that can mean writing a really good story and letting it snooze in my laptop. Or it could mean that I want to get my story published and want people to read and enjoy my work.
Writing, after all, is an act of forging connection: First, within yourself, then within your community, and finally, with the world at large. The threshold of success gets murky when you’re shuddering in the dole-drums of getting published, rejected, ignored, and criticized.
It’s uncanny then, that I got some great advice on personal success and lasting happiness from a tech billionaire from Silicon Valley.
Naval Ravikant is known as the most spiritual billionaire on Earth. I want to disclaim here that I only read this book because Audible gave me a free coin and I pushed on the title as a…
