在《納瓦爾寶典》中，納瓦爾說了一句令我印象深刻的話：
「理性的人能透過淡然面對不可控之事而找到平靜。」（A rational person can find peace by cultivating indifference to things outside of their control.）
他也提到自己刻意採取的一些做法，其中有一句深深觸動了我：
“I don't get involved in politics.”
我完全理解他的選擇。對我而言，不只是政治，宗教爭論也會消耗大量心理能量。因此，我常告訴自己：
我不介入政治，也不介入宗教爭論。
真正讓我感到不適的，其實不是信仰本身，而是某些人「靠得太緊」的方式。我身旁有些長輩，非常熱衷自己的信仰，但往往會出現兩個困擾人的行為：
- 強勢地企圖影響晚輩的信仰選擇。
- 言行不一致，讓他們所說的價值反而更難讓人信服。
後來我才明白，這些行為並非出於惡意，而是源自「強烈的身分認同」。
當一個人的自我與信仰綁得太緊，他需要他人同意來補強自己的確信；當他需要維護某種形象，言行就容易產生落差。
納瓦爾稱這種現象為零和遊戲：政治、宗教爭論、社會地位，都是以身份為核心的戰場。
而我並不想把我的心靈放在這些外部戰場上。
選擇不介入，不是冷漠，而是把焦點放回自己能控制的地方：
我的生活習慣、我的思考方式、我選擇成為的那個人。
這份平靜，是我能給自己最實在的自由。
One line from The Almanack of Naval Ravikant stayed with me:
“A rational person can find peace by cultivating indifference to things outside of their control.”
Naval also shared a list of habits he adopted to protect his peace. One of them struck me immediately:
“I don't get involved in politics.”
I resonate with this deeply. For me, it's not just politics—religious debates can be just as draining. Over time, I've come to adopt my own version of his principle:
I don't get involved in politics or religious debates.
What truly disturbs me is not the beliefs themselves, but the way some people cling to them. A few elders in my life, who are deeply invested in their faith, often display two patterns:
- A strong desire to influence the younger generation's beliefs.
- A noticeable gap between what they say and how they actually live.
I used to feel frustrated, but Naval's ideas helped me reinterpret these experiences.
When someone's identity is tightly tied to a belief, they feel compelled to defend it, promote it, and perform it—sometimes even when their actions tell a different story.
Politics, religious arguments, and status games all share the same nature:
they are identity-driven, zero-sum battles.
And I have no interest in placing my peace on such battlegrounds.
Choosing not to participate doesn't mean apathy. It simply means redirecting my energy toward what I can control—my habits, my clarity, and the person I'm becoming.
That, to me, is a far more sustainable kind of freedom.
