Tension Is Who You Think You Should Be
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🗃 Resources:: The Almanack of Naval Ravikant (2020)
2026-06-10
"Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are." — Buddhist saying
Our egos are constructed in our formative years — our first two decades. They get constructed by our environment, our parents, society. Then, we spend the rest of our life trying to make our ego happy. We interpret anything new through our ego: "How do I change the external world to make it more how I would like it to be?"