Meditate One Hour a Day

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

Another method I've learned is to just sit there and close your eyes for at least one hour a day. You surrender to whatever happens — don't make any effort whatsoever. You make no effort for something, and you make no effort against anything. If there are thoughts running through your mind, you let the thoughts run.

Meditation is like a giant inbox of unanswered emails, going back to your childhood. They will come out one by one, and you will be forced to deal with them. Resolving them doesn't take any work — you just observe them. Over time, you will resolve a lot of these deep-seated unresolved things you have in your mind. Once they're resolved, there will come a day when you sit down to meditate, and you'll hit a mental "inbox zero." When you open your mental "email" and there are none, that is a pretty amazing feeling.

Life-hack: When in bed, meditate. Either you will have a deep meditation or fall asleep. Victory either way.

I recommend meditating one hour each morning because anything less is not enough time to really get deep into it. I would recommend if you really want to try meditation, try sixty days of one hour a day, first thing in the morning. After about sixty days, you will be tired of listening to your own mind.

If you can get a free hour of bliss every morning just by sitting and closing your eyes, that is worth its weight in gold. It will change your life.