Health Is My Number One Priority

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🗃 Resources:: The Almanack of Naval Ravikant (2020)
2026-06-10

Nothing like a health problem to turn up the contrast dial for the rest of life.

My number one priority in life, above my happiness, above my family, above my work, is my own health. It starts with my physical health. Second, it's my mental health. Third, it's my spiritual health. Then, it's my family's health. Then, it's my family's wellbeing. After that, I can go out and do whatever I need to do with the rest of the world.

What about the modern world steers us away from the way humans are meant to live? We have diets we are not evolved to eat. A correct diet should probably look closer to a paleo diet, mostly eating vegetables with a small amount of meat and berries. In terms of exercise, we're probably meant to play instead of running on a treadmill. We're not evolved to live in a perfectly sterile and clean environment.