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Immediate Retirement – Jakob Greenfeld – Experiments in Permissionless Entrepreneurship

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“Retirement is when you stop sacrificing today for an imaginary tomorrow. When today is complete, in and of itself, you’re retired.” - Naval Ravikant I only recently realized that Naval’s advice is a lot more actionable than I initially thought. It’s actually a practical way to live your life. For me a rich life consists of four core elements: • Being useful (helping others, “work”) • Exercise • Learn • Social Interaction A mistake I made for a long time is to dedicate days solely to one of these elements while neglecting the others. Many days were 100% focused on work. Other days were purely centered around social interactions. Exercise and learning were crammed if there was any time and energy left. I’ve now realized that a better approach is to try to hit each core element every single day. This is what it means that a day is “complete in and of itself”. I’m trying to have an optimal day every single day. I work out every single day. I spend time with friends and talk to strangers e

Immediate Retirement “Retirement is when you stop sacrificing today for an imaginary tomorrow. When today is complete, in and of itself, you’re retired.” - Naval Ravikant I only recently realized that Naval’s advice is a lot more actionable than I initially thought. It’s actually a practical way to live your life. For me a rich life consists of four core elements: • Being useful (helping others, “work”) • Exercise • Learn • Social Interaction A mistake I made for a long time is to dedicate days solely to one of these elements while neglecting the others. Many days were 100% focused on work. Ot

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