Past’s grip is a choice to release.
Naval’s approach to dropping history’s weight may be studied as a key to personal freedom.
Act on what you can control.
Naval’s focus on actionable care, ignoring distant woes, may be a noted strategy for sanity in chaos.
Anxiety is piled-up unresolved stress.
He sees anxiety as accumulated, unaddressed conflicts, resolvable through awareness.
Ruminate on death to ease anxiety.
He finds contemplating mortality reduces worry by highlighting life’s brevity.
Cut the past if it burdens you.
Naval advises severing ties with a troubling past to focus on present goals.
Choose what leaves you more at peace.
Decisions fostering long-term equanimity, Naval says, outweigh short-term gains.
Thinking of yourself breeds misery.
He warns excessive self-focus fuels unhappiness, advocating outward attention instead.
The mind can eat you alive if unchecked.
Naval cautions that an unmanaged mind spirals into negativity, harming your well-being.
Worst trait is low self-esteem.
Naval reiterates that lacking self-worth is life’s most debilitating flaw.
Build self-esteem by helping others.
He suggests acts of sacrifice for others enhance your self-respect.
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