Shed Your Identity to See Reality Our egos are constructed in our formative years — our first two decades. They get constructed by our environment, o… - Naval Ravikant

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Shed Your Identity to See Reality Our egos are constructed in our formative years — our first two decades. They get constructed by our environment, our parents, society. Then, we spend the rest of our life trying to make our ego happy. We interpret anything new through our ego: “How do I change the external world to make it more how I would like it to be?” [8] “Tension is who you think you should be.
Relaxation is who you are.” — Buddhist saying You absolutely need habits to function. You cannot solve every problem in life as if it is the first time it’s thrown at you. We accumulate all these habits. We put them in the bundle of identity, ego, ourselves, and then we get attached to them. “I’m Naval. This is the way I am.