Author: AnandPatel

In the holy book, “Gita” there is a saying, “One should only do the work, & should not crave for the results.” As results are often are not in our control. Thus, the easiest way for peaceful living is to detach from the results & attach to the processes. But, it is easier to say than to be done. Doing without asking anything in return is the most paradoxical thing one comes across in life, as the first thought of carrying out any action is the results linked to the action. In a world, where the rewards are related to happiness. How is it possible for a human being to detach from rewards?. In the end, we are just living beings & social animals. For us, one of our greatest accomplishments is being remembered by other fellow human beings. As being recognized gives a godly feeling for at least some minutes. For this, we put results above the process & eventually link our happiness with the results.

How often we have seen people working hard as day labor; who spends 8-10 hours (in India) in toiling heat & humid conditions without any safety harness & in return earns a meager salary of Rs 500 per day. Whereas on the other hand, one person who is working for 4-5 hours is earning in lakhs. Obviously, there is a different set of skills that each person owns that he can leverage to get where he or she is. Yet, in terms of absolute efforts, the rewards are entirely different. How would that person feel, who is working as hard as the person sitting on the laptop but is getting significantly low rewards?. So, are the efforts being rewarded fairly?. Many so-called “Successful” individuals, look down on people who are not by saying that they are not working hard or smart enough. But, they merely forget, that an event of randomness allows them to leap one step ahead compared to their peers. The same concept is in the book, “Fooled By Randomness”. Yet, some feel they are smart enough, hard-working enough, tough enough to beat the competition.

Efforts are subjective & the most essential part of rewards. Donkey toil every day & is probably the most hard-working animal in the food chain. On the other hand, Lion only gets up to hunt & spends the rest of the time relaxing & reproducing. Donkey is treated as abuse, while Lion is the king of Jungle. There is a significant difference in the efforts of both. Yet, one is treated entirely differently from the other. So, how can one say that effort gives you desired results. Although, not doing any work will surely fail you. So efforts are necessary to get to your destination without any second thoughts. But, is the efforts worth the result are entirely different.

A person toiling day in & day out for something extra or some rewards often faces the humiliation & pain of getting rejected daily. After getting rejected hundreds of times, the pain of rejection somewhat subsides & the feeling of hatred, agony, anger takes over the mind. Why the person’s hard work is not rewarded with the desired results? Not getting desired results often robs people of happiness & gives wind to sadness. People who have gone through such phases can vouch for the same. Is God being fair for not treating efforts with rewards? & make them wonder if there is God for real or not?

As per Hindu rituals, nobody gets more than the written & before the time. Maybe this is true & is the reason Lord Krishna said, “Just do work & forget about the results.” As seeking results will make you restless & often anxious & will make you mean. If one focuses on just working irrespective of the results, it will make one calmer & peaceful. The ultimate destiny that we pursue. An efficient way to live life; a life fruitful & less miserable. We suffer because of our desires & the desires arise because of our attraction towards the results. A painful journey that we all need to go through. The best way would be to commence the journey & let the action take its own course. Because, “We feel we are in control of the situations & can determine the results, but we are just pawns in the greater scheme of things.

An investor, entrepreneur, hustler, grinder from the outset. He built his business from the ground up & after creating successful businesses, he started preaching to the world & telling them to trust the process. He made it big through hard work & patience & fantastic acumen to grow & to build something. His keynote speeches & hustling stories are awe-inspiring. Among the few entrepreneurs who can successfully predict market movement & get behind the technology in an early adopters phase only. He was an early investor in Uber, snap, Twitter, etc. He has made tonnes of money, yet his lovelies in a garage sale & flipping. He curses a lot, yet is loved by his followers. He is none other than Gary Vaynerchuk or popularly known as “Gary Vee”. His shows like DailyVee, tea with Gary Vee, AskGaryVee, etc, are already popular among fans. Without wasting any more time, here are some of the best quotes by Gary.

What would you do, if you can do it every time?

When you get to do what you want to do, you have won.

There is a naivete in the world, just because you talk people will listen. You actually have to be good.

If you are good enough, IF YOU ARE GOOD ENOUGH, nobody will be stopping you. Not fucking Donald Trump, not the fucking Russians, nobody. If you are transgender, if you are a minority, if you are fucking alien, the market doesn’t give a fuck.

It is way harder to actually have your product win with the customers, than some old white dues on Sandhill Road to write you a check. So if this is breaking you down, you are in deep shit.

If you want to build businesses, hard work should be the first, second & third part of the formula.

Work is the variable of success.

In entrepreneurship, there is no in-between, either you are in or you are out. This is binary.

Every time there is an actual attention revolution, enormous money is being made & enormous money is being lost.

Everyone looks at a finished product today, nobody watches the amount of work one has put behind it.

You cry, you gonna lose & I have bad news about complaining & crying, nobody gives a shit.

Speed is 4 billion times important than perfection.

There are 4000 things one wants, it confuses you. Don’t be confused see what you want, reverse engineer it & get it.

Regret fucking sucks

Tripple down on one thing instead of being half pregnant on the other 9 things.

Stop looking at your friend’s shit.

Every second you spend thinking about somebody else has is taking away from time that you could create something for yourself.

If it was so easy, don’t we all choose that?

You want this to be your life & you are giving up after 4 months.

Patience is grossly underestimated.

Don’t play short games, play long-term games.

Work ethic is a taught process.

We’re beating ourselves up. Everybody sucks at something. Focus on what you are good at.

Take ownership of everything & then everything gets easy.

Karma is particle.

These are just limited quotes by Gary Vee. However, there are plenty more & one can feel refreshed by hearing him. Below is the best video to showcase Quotes by Gary Vee, his mantra towards life & optimism towards life. Unlike Naval Ravikant, who is more philosophical in approach. Gary vee is more disruptive & trying new things. I hope you enjoyed some of his best quotes.

Naval Ravikant is simply a rockstar in the tech world & one of the most followed people in silicon valley hailed as one of the brightest minds in the tech world. An immigrant from India, who rises from poverty & who took the tech world with a storm. A person who will awestruck you with his vast knowledge & thought process. He is not following anyone on Twitter, yet every great mind follows him. His podcast, How To Grow Rich Without Getting Lucky. Anyone looking to create something without getting washed away in the process should listen to him & sip every drop of knowledge offered by this legend. If you are feeling low in life & lost in the process. Take out few moments & listen to his interview with Joe Rogan. One of the best interviews one will ever listen to. Without wasting any more time, here are some of the best lessons from the interview.

Specialization is for insects. So everyone should be able to do anything. I don’t believe in focus life on one thing. You have got one life; just do anything your gonna do.

One has to be a fool & have a beginner’s mind & go back to the beginning to start over. If you are not doing that, you are getting older.

Reading a large number of books or books to completion is a vanity metric. I would read the best 100 books over & over again till I have absorbed them rather than reading all the books as the brain has finite information & infinite space. You get enough advice & it all cancels to zero & there are nonsense books as well.

Rather than looking at yourself, one is looking at how the other person is looking at you. It’s a kind of disease as social media is making a celebrity of all of us & celebrities are the most miserable people in the world.

You need to be rich & anonymous, not poor & famous.

Everyone needs three basic things, everyone wants to be wealthy, everyone wants to be rich & everyone wants to be healthy. These three things can be actually taught.

When there is a crisis going on you have to be the coolest cucumber who also figures out the correct answer.

Social contracts are powerful, if you want to give up on drinking & if you are serious you will announce it to the world. All these are choices, being fit is a choice, eating nutritions is a choice & happiness is also a choice. If you are so smart & capable, why are you not happy?

Desire is a contract that you make with yourself to be unhappy till you get what you want. Don’t have the unlimited desire, have one desire & let go of others so that you can be peaceful & calm.

How much output you are getting, what are you doing, how you doing are way more important than, how hard you work.

You are not going to get rich by renting your time.

It is difficult to predict what kind of jobs will be available 10 years from now. Societies will always create new jobs.

Automation will take over all the jobs except the creative jobs.

If you want to see who rules over you, see who you are not allowed to criticize.

People who get outraged are the stupidest people on social media.

All the great minds are figuring out how to get you addicted to the news & if you are addicted your brain will get destroyed. The modern struggle is to resist yourself to these things or draw boundaries.

News has become commoditize & entire news media has shifted to peddling opinions & entertainment. So, these are now propaganda machines for their tribe.

Social media outlets are picking up the next president, prime ministers.

If all of your beliefs in one political party you are not clear thinker, if all your believes is as per your friends & neighbor you are not a clear thinker. If you want to be a clear thinker, you can’t pay attention to politics, it will destroy your ability to think.

All of our diseases are diseases of abundance not a disease of scarcity.

Everyone is trying to program everybody & the only solution is to turn it off.

All the men’s problems arise because he can not sit by himself for 30 min in a room alone.

Peace is happiness at rest & happiness is peace in motion. You can convert peace to happiness at any time.

We think we get peace by solving all the external problems. But, there are unlimited external problems. Hence, the only way to get it is to give up the idea of problems.

One should have a deep understanding of what you doing & why you doing it.

Answers to all the great questions are paradoxical.

I am nothing & I am everything.

Live well below your mean & you will enjoy the freedom that one can’t fathom.

There is no get rich scheme, it is other people getting rich through your money.

Most smart people realize possession doesn’t make them happy.

A busy mind can often rob you of peace of mind or peace from the mind.

The fundamental illusion is that there is something that will make us happy & keep us happy forever.

Retirement is when you start sacrificing today for some imaginary tomorrow.

The way to beat the competition is by being authentic.

Your real resume is a catalog of all your sufferings.

You have to do hard things to create meaning in your life.

Everyone has two lives, the second one starts once he realizes he has just one.

A happy person wants 10,000 things; a sick person wants only one.

Don’t focus on more than one desire at a time. The universe is rigged in such a way that, if you focus on one thing you will get it. But everything else you will have to let it go.

Happy thoughts disappear from the mind quickly, negative thoughts linger.

It likes a play to me but works for them & the reason why nobody can beat me. As I am playing 16 hours 7 days a week, they are working.

Above are some of the gems by Naval Ravikant. There is a plethora of knowledge in this guy & his every tweet or verse is full of enlightenment. Nobody can risk missing it. One can catch the full episode on youtube through the following link.

One can read about his wisdom in the book “The Almanack of Naval Ravikant”.

Cryptocurrency trading becomes fashion during the time of the bull run. In the uptrend movement, everyone jumps onto the ship & considers it as an easy money-making option & this is probably the biggest mistake one can make. People often only talk about the financial aspects of it. However, nobody talks about the economic aspects of crypto. The economic aspect is as important as the financial aspect, which holds for any new startup or experiment. Cryptocurrency is about the unique technology “blockchain” behind it & it is an EXPERIMENT for now. Every experiment comes with a risk of going to zero that many traders overlook. Many people take it as a sure-shot ticket to the moon, which is appropriate assuming if this experiment is successful. Many people who trade cryptocurrency don’t think about it at all & thus lose money. Trading is a highly professional job, just like the stock market. It is not easy to track every stock & determine which stock will go up & down. There are more than 2000 currencies, & each one is unique in its way. During the bull trend, major of the coins pump 10-15x minimum & thus makes it one of the events to look up to. Like every good thing, the bull market tends to over. However, people jump on the boat after seeing insane gains (but the gains have already been made). They buy the hype, which is never a good idea & in a result make losses. In a bull market, everyone is a crypto trader & they are the first ones to leave the market. One should know that cryptocurrency trading is not a cakewalk.

Many of us have seen the posts, which shows how holding a share worth 1000 Rs is now in Cr after 20 years. People generally look at the final price of Cr. However, misses the point of holding the asset for 20years. The most difficult part is holding on to the stocks even after having 500% in profit. Just like stocks, in cryptos, insane gains are made via holding or HODL (a famous word in the crypto community). The problem is the greed of getting rich overnight & some people have become so overnight. But, the ratio of such people is very low & we want to take them as our inspiration. Before reaching the stage of overnight success one has to sail through the rough waves. Thus, there are many phases that grips or torture the daily life of a crypto trader. Like life, cryptocurrency trading consists of many phases.

The most depressing & disheartening phase of the crypto industry is this phase. When there is no news, people are not talking about it, the progress is slow & there is a dilemma if this thing will ever shine. Yet, it is one of the most important phases to buy, as those people who look for short-term gains don’t pay attention to the progress. A perfect opportunity to accumulate coins that can become something big in the future. Most of the crypto traders accumulate in this phase & wait for their turn to make some huge gains. Newbies miss this phase because of the lack of interest in the industry.

After months or sometimes years of non-movement or sideways movement, there comes a time when the uptrend starts & there are daily gains visible on the portfolio. This part is most fascinating, as the greens are always good for the eyes. This moment is needed to be cherished & a price to be remembered. As this should be treated as support for one’s trade.

After the price rises silently, suddenly the hype is created among the holders & everyone will share screenshots of the gains they have made while holding the crypto. During a bull run, a 10x gain is the minimum one expects & some of the projects outperform others by 100x as well. Thus there will always be someone who will be showing off his or her massive gains.

If one coin rise parabolically, then it needs to be covered in the News. Which usually is not covered by them. When this happens, one should stay alert & pay attention to the prices. The News covers a larger audience & their reach is more. So, if they cover the price actions, millions of people will get to know about this asset class, people jump in for some quick & easy money; without realizing the technology behind it. This coverage should be treated as the first sign of a future correction. Because of its reach, the News becomes the biggest source for the influx of funds & eventually helps in creating the bubble. A bubble that will blast sooner or later & while doing so will remove all the weak hands. Once prices are being covered in the News, one should brace up for the price correction.

The most painful part of the journey is the selling. Big whales who accumulated during the first phase have already gained 15 to 20x on their assets & they already made enough for this leg of the bull market & once the market becomes too big, it is time to sell. Thus, they sell from their original level. However, people who bought the news are the biggest sufferer of this. Because they jumped the last & especially they bought the news. When people talk about money before reading about the product then it is a dangerous time. This time is bloodbath on the streets & all the new people who came because of the news are the first ones to fall down & with bringing down many more weak hands.

The selling continues till weak hands are flushed out of the system & then the cycle repeats. Big whales accumulate, accumulate & accumulate till the prices are covered in the news. The Crypto market is nothing compared to the traditional market, in this market one can experience as far as 90% retracement, which is not normal for any other industry. This retracement shakes out many newbies & weak hands. So, this is not for everyone & also one should not put his or her life savings in this volatile asset. Though the gains are massive, the losses are of a similar nature.

Timing the market is nearly impossible. The best strategy is to invest each month on a fixed date; only when if one is sure about the technology. All the weak-hearted people can skip this brutal, violent & volatile market. One can refer to the link to invest in crypto currency.