Envy Is the Enemy of Happiness

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🗃 Resources:: The Almanack of Naval Ravikant (2020)
2026-06-10

I don't think life is that hard. I think we make it hard. One of the things I'm trying to get rid of is the word "should." Whenever the word "should" creeps up in your mind, it's guilt or social programming. Doing something because you "should" basically means you don't actually want to do it. I'm trying to eliminate as many "shoulds" from my life as possible.

ENVY IS THE ENEMY OF HAPPINESS.

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

Training yourself to be happy is completely internal. There is no external progress, no external validation. You're competing against yourself — it is a single-player game. We compete purely in multiplayer games. The reality is life is a single-player game. You're born alone. You're going to die alone. All of your interpretations are alone. Purely single-player games.