Happiness Is Peace

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

How I combat anxiety: I don't try and fight it, I just notice I'm anxious because of all these thoughts. I try to figure out, "Would I rather be having this thought right now, or would I rather have my peace?" Because as long as I have my thoughts, I can't have my peace. When a lot of people say happiness, they mean joy or bliss, but I'll take peace.

I think a lot of us have this low-level pervasive feeling of anxiety. There's this "nexting" thing where you're sitting in one spot thinking about where you should be next. It's always the next thing, then the next thing, the next thing after that — creating this pervasive anxiety.