The Most Valuable Real Estate In The World…?

Rui Zhi Dong
5 min readJul 24, 2019
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The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the colour of your thoughts.” — Marcus Aurelius

No, it’s not a luxury flat in Monaco. I’m actually talking about your mind! That grey and white matter that makes you… you! The thoughts that occupy your mind needs to be carefully considered. You need to think about what you’re thinking.

Is the thought in my mind rent worthy?

Think of each thought that sits in your mind as having to pay rent. That thought needs to be paying the equivalent rent of an Upper East Side penthouse in Manhattan to occupy space in your mind. Does the thought deserve to be there? Is it worthy? If it’s garbage, it needs to be thrown out ASAP!

This is a question that’s worth asking regularly throughout the day. You’ll see just how easy it is for your mind to start wondering off. Just as you wouldn’t allow a criminal to go freely in and out of your home throughout the day, so you shouldn’t allow any negative thought to stay in your head for prolonged periods of time without your explicit consent.

You give energy to the thoughts that occupy your mind. The longer the thought sits there, the more energy it consumes. Is it really worth fueling thoughts about whether you were slighted by an acquaintance at a party for…

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Rui Zhi Dong

Entrepreneur and Writer. Working on book, Thinking Questions. Influenced by Charlie Munger, Nassim Taleb, Ray Dalio, Marcus Aurelius, Cicero.