Self-Love Drives Your Choices and Upgrades Your Life – Kamal Ravikant with Dave Asprey – #838

• So as a successful, financially successful Silicon Valley, why would you write a book about loving yourself? – 2:07
• I was miserable anyway. No job, no company, nothing going for me. Rent’s due next month, credit cards. So I started to try to figure it out and I just worked on my mind.  – 6:02
  
• When did you realize that you weren’t alone in having hit the bottom the way you did?  – 9:44
  
• I’m a big believer in sharing the truth and I don’t mean like here’s my dirty laundry truth, but the emotional truth, the fundamental truth or your truth about what makes you better.  – 14:22
  
• There’s plenty of books on loving yourself. Your mom tells you a lot of yourself. Your grandma, your grandmother tells you to love yourself. No one tells you how.  – 16:16
  
• Can you walk our listeners and Our Upgrade Collective people who are live today through the basics of the seven minutes?  – 19:01
  
• There’s different exercises to do it, but that’s what it is and it’s a practice. For example, I’ll pause throughout the day and I’ll just do 10 breaths.  – 21:44
  
• I’m insanely curious. Since I was a kid, I just want to figure things out. If I was told, “Don’t touch the socket,’ guess what kid will be sticking his hand in the socket.  – 24:01
  
• You get these special forces guys, you spend like tens of millions training each one, and then they come out and they’re packing boxes a Walmart, it’s a tragedy, right? So I love mentoring these guys and showing them what they’re capable of in the civilian world.  – 28:00
  
• There’s nothing wrong with being a man, to be really clear. But when you read it, how much of your audience is women versus men?  – 29:58
  
• Writing it down, reading it until I was sick of it. Reading it loud. I’m letting it go. I’m getting rid of the weight.  – 34:25
  
• You’re hanging off a cliff with your fingers. You know the kind of intensity you will put into your fingers? Imagine putting that intensity into loving yourself, what would that be like?  – 35:57
  
• There’s a very simple thing I do that’s almost become natural now. I call it the question. It’s a very simple question the question is, if I love myself, if I love myself, truly and deeply, what would I do? And I asked myself that when I’m making choices.  – 37:37
  
• How many times a day or a week do you have the voice of ego saying things about shame in your head today?  – 39:03
  
• I went inside to the child and all I did was I saw his head and I kissed his head and I said, “No shame, no guilt. You’re perfect.” – 40:19
  
• Let’s say you’re competing for a deal, and you really want it, and someone beats you, what goes through your head?  – 41:25
  
• I wish I’d known this stuff earlier, man, I would have been a better entrepreneur. I wouldn’t have fallen apart the times when I did. I wonder if I hadn’t fall apart, could I’ve saved my company? I don’t know. Maybe. I probably would have handled it better.  – 46:16
  
• Who is maybe one of your mentors that you actually looked up to or still look up to in your daily life?  – 47:38
  
• When I look at my life and create a beautiful narrative arc for myself using the same events and then be that person as a result of that.  – 50:44

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