Form Habits
Naval emphasizes that you should turn beneficial activities into habits. This includes daily physical activities to help you break bad habits like excessive caffeine consumption or partying.
Fast, lift, sprint, stretch, and meditate. Build, sell, write, create, invest, and own. Read, reflect, love, seek truth, and ignore society. Make these habits. Say no to everything else.
Cultivate Self-Discipline with Meditation
Spend time in solitude, engage in self-examination, and meditate to resolve unresolved issues, leading to mental clarity and discipline.
The modern mind is overstimulated and the modern body is understimulated and overfed. Meditation, exercise, and fasting restore an ancient balance.
Focus on a Single Desire
Choose one overwhelming desire and let go of everything else to maintain discipline. This focus leads to personal growth and achievement.
When building habits, choose consistency over content. The best work is the work you’d do for free.
Prioritize Action Over Theory
Know what to do, who to do it with, and when to do it to get rich or achieve goals, which requires a disciplined approach to action over just theoretical knowledge.
All of the really successful people I know have a really strong action bias. They just do things.