For Self-Improvement, Update Your Self-Image

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

For self-improvement without self-discipline, update your self-image.

Everyone's motivated at something. It just depends on the thing. Even the people that we say are unmotivated are suddenly really motivated when they're playing video games. I think motivation is relative, so you just have to find the thing you're into.

Grind and sweat, toil and bleed, face the abyss. It's all part of becoming an overnight success.

If you had to pass down to your kids one or two principles, what would they be? Number one: read. Read everything you can. And not just the stuff that society tells you is good. Just read for its own sake. Develop a love for it. Even if you have to read romance novels or comic books. There's no such thing as junk. Just read it all. Eventually, you'll guide yourself to the things that you should and want to be reading.