Naval Ravikant quotes on short term

All self-help boils down to "choose long-term over short-term."

Decisions: • If you can’t decide, the answer is no. • If two equally difficult paths, choose the one more painful in the short term (pain avoidance is creating an illusion of equality). • Choose the path that leaves you more equanimous in the long term.

We waste our time with short term thinking and busywork. Warren Buffett spends a year deciding and a day acting. That act lasts decades.

Simple heuristic: If you're evenly split on a difficult decision, take the path that's more painful in the short term.

The market may be irrational in the short term, but so are you if you think that you can time it.

The classical virtues are all decision-making heuristics to make one optimize for the long term rather than for the short term.