Thanksgiving
A Missive on Health, Contentment, Relationships
It was back in 2018 when Naval Ravikant shared this.
Naval had been one of my first notable followers, and he ended up becoming a key figure in my life, as it was his RTs of my post that led to my wife following me, which then led to her subscribing to my newsletter, which led to her messaging me inviting me to her birthday party,
Which led to us dating, and then I met Naval at a party in San Francisco just a few weeks after her and I met,
And he said we made a great match because we were contrasting but complementary personalities,
Interestingly Id also meet his brother (Kamal) a few months later as well. Both of them we had great conversation and Id consider them friends,
And now here we are married 7 years later, with 2 children going 3.
We are all healthy, content, and having our first thanksgiving at our new home.
So, thank you Naval.
What a Good Life is built on
The first is health. Not elite fitness performance record setting extreme training gym bro life, but simple wellness.
Do you feel strong? Are you strong?
Are you energetic?
You sleep well?
You eat well?
Your body is supple, pain free, you can move.
You are healthy.
Im thankful that I started personal training when I was 20, and was able to work with so many older people who served the role of being anti-mentors in demonstrating how losing ones health brought down ones entire quality of existence. And reclaiming it was challenging, in so many ways.
Construct your life around a hard standard of wellness, and you will always have the energy to handle whatever fate (good or bad) you encounter.
The next is Contentment. Always be grateful for what you have, even when you have nothing but being alive.
I had to radically accept when I was young that whatever happened to me was my fault. This lesson was imprinted during a short period of incarceration when I was 19. When in an institutional setting as a prisoner, the only place of peace you have is your MIND. Your inner world.
I do not recommend this route as the ideal way to learn this, but by god does it teach you.
The ability to be calm, and be appreciative, even in the worst circumstances when you can do nothing to change anything, it a superlative ability.
Anxiety about the future, about action, about uncertainty, it is wasted emotional energy.
That mental posture of contentment Ive taken with me my whole life. There is good to be found in bad times, and during good times, its the best time of your life.
Learn to be content.
The third is Relationships. Life is about people. You do not exist as a solo entity separate from the world. You can try maybe, there is a monastic existence in total solitude that can be argued for. But thats not most people.
Our lives are built on the ties that bind us to others, and who we choose to bind to. Good people have good people around them. We rise or fall to the level of our character. Water always finds its own level.
Relationships are character development. Deep psychological development. They are growth, they are you evolve to a higher (or lower) version of yourself. There is no wheel to be reinvented in the heroic and familial cycle of a man and who he can potentially become.
Be a Man who creates World around himself. Fill it with love. Protect it at all costs.
The qualities this requires will turn you into someone admirable.
Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!!
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