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A nugget from Naval Ravikant & Warren Buffet

Aug 04, 2023

💡 Nugget

“There’s the ‘five chimps theory’ where you can predict a chimp’s behavior by the five chimps it hangs out with the most. I think that applies to humans as well. Maybe it’s politically incorrect to say you should choose your friends very wisely. But you shouldn’t choose them haphazardly based on who you live next to or who you happen to work with. The people who are the most happy and optimistic choose the right five chimps.”

- Naval Ravikant (book “The Almanack of Naval Ravikant”)

“Pick out those [people] whose behavior is somewhat better than yours and you will drift in that direction. Similarly, if you hang out with a ‘bad bunch’ you are very likely to find your behavior worse over.”

- Warren Buffet (Berkshire Hathaway’s Annual Meeting, year 2005)