Re-Commit to What You Love

If you want to improve your thought process and decision-making while becoming more creative, you must read the book “The Almanack of Naval Ravikant.” Naval, an entrepreneur, philosopher, and investor as he is known, discusses wisdom, making money, happiness and several other subjects. His unique perspective is easily digestible and easy to implement into our daily lives.

Here are Naval's thoughts on mastery:

"I only really want to do things for their own sake. That is one definition of art. Whether it's business, exercise, romance, friendship, whatever, I think the meaning of life is to do things for their own sake. Ironically, when you do things for their own sake, you create your best work. Even if you're just trying to make money, you will actually be the most successful. The year I generated the most wealth for myself was actually the year I worked the least hard and cared the least about the future. I was mostly doing things for the sheer fun of it. I was basically telling people, ‘I'm retired, I'm not working.’ Then, I had the time for whatever was my highest valued project in front of me. By doing things for their own sake, I did them at their best. The less you want something, the less you're thinking about it, the less you're obsessing over it, the more you're going to do it in a natural way. The more you're going to do it for yourself. You're going to do it in a way you're good at, and you're going to stick with it. The people around you will see the quality of your work is higher."

Naval believes we do our best work when we love our work. Those two beliefs are dependent on one another. When we care more than anything, we find ways to master what we care about most. We don't have time for our phones; we don't have time to check Twitter or Instagram. We can unplug and get lost in doing what we love. And if we are doing what we say we love and still becoming pre-occupied, maybe we don't love it as much as we think we do. Maybe it’s time to re-evaluate what we really love.

If you want to add more time to your day, if you want to get more done than ever before, start by re-committing to what you love.

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