🧐Life Formulas from Naval: You are your most important underlying asset. How do you invest in yourself?

1️⃣ Self-correction of the body.

After a business trip, the most important thing is to catch up on sleep. Yesterday, over a dozen hours of sleep quickly restored all my numbers. My sleep index broke 90 for the first time and my HRV was close to 40, which shows just how important good sleep is.

Today, I still don’t plan to do any high-intensity physical or mental activities. I’ll just read a bit and take a walk to give myself an extra day to recover.

2️⃣ Super Body Plan: Daily Selfie Analysis!

This morning, I heard from the Lao Dao Jin Ma Brothers: every day, send a selfie to GPT, and then ask: “This is my selfie for today. If I want to look younger and healthier, or maintain youthfulness, what should I do?”

I tried it, and it was interesting. It gave me lots of suggestions, such as hot compresses, supplementing vitamin E, and regular maintenance.

Instantly, I got a personal image and skin health manager. AI even gave this plan a name: Super Body State Plan.

3️⃣ You are your most important underlying asset!

When I woke up this morning, I casually flipped through Naval Ravikant's “Precious Life Advice.” This part is worth bookmarking.

Many years ago, I set three goals for myself:

✨ Don’t be a replaceable worker; become an irreplaceable source of value.
✨ Don’t just make money; build mechanisms that let money make money for you.
✨ Don’t just create content; build your own brand and network effect.

In fact, this highly overlaps with the content in this section: Health is the foundation, brand is the leverage, compounding is the path, responsibility is the ticket, time is your friend, and you are the underlying asset!

Life is about continuously optimizing these variables. Many people get the priorities wrong. We don’t do these things to become powerful; it’s because we do these things well that we naturally become powerful.

The outside world is always turbulent. Cycles are always changing. The only thing stable and controllable is yourself. You are your most important underlying asset. Investing in yourself is the highest-return “long-termism.”

3️⃣ How to invest in yourself:

1) Health = Exercise + Diet + Sleep.
If you can’t sleep well, you can’t be efficient. If you don’t eat well, you can’t be in good shape.
Exercise is what protects our underlying asset for the next ten years.
Those seemingly “time-wasting” good habits are actually quietly accumulating energy for you.

2) Wealth = Income + Compounding.
Just making money isn’t enough; letting your money work for you is the key.
Leverage, responsibility, personal brand, and irreplaceable skills
are the most important “amplifiers” of our era.
Short-term relies on luck; long-term relies on ability and reputation.
That’s why I mentioned reliable compounding in yesterday’s article.

3) Relationships = People worth entrusting + Long-term trust building.
The more you grow, the more you realize that people with strong energy never go it alone.
The most valuable thing between people is stable emotional value and trust.
So, it’s important to build stable links with family, friends, and partners.
Happiness comes from three pillars: body, money, and human connection. For happiness, the first two are fundamental, but the last one is the foundation.