What the world craves is Authenticity. - Naval Ravikant

The price of trying to make everyone else happy is making yourself miserable.

Richard Feynman very famously does this in “Six Easy Pieces,” one of his early physics lectures. He basically explains mathematics in three pages. He starts from the number line — counting — and then he goes all the way up to precalculus. He just builds it up through an unbroken chain of logic. He doesn’t rely on any definitions.

The people who have the ability to fail in public under their own name actually gain a lot of power.