The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

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Here are 3 of Naval’s secrets on how to “make it” both on the outside and inside, thanks to smart thinking and self-awareness: This is a list of translations that are under contract and expected to be completed and published in the near future. If a book doesn’t interest you at first, flip ahead, skim, or speed read. If it still doesn’t interest you after the first chapter, drop the book. Most books have one point to make. Once you get the gist of a book, put it down. 5. Understand Happiness is a Choice I have a young kid now, so I’ve got a lot of child-rearing books I use more as reference material than anything else. I recently read some Emerson and some Chesterfield. I have a Leo Tolstoy book here. I don’t buy the everlasting afterlife answers because it’s insane to me, with absolutely no evidence, to believe because of how you live seventy years here on this planet, you’re going to spend eternity, which is a very long time, in some afterlife. What kind of silly God judges you for eternity based on some small period of time here? I think after this life, it’s very much like before you were born. Remember that? It’s going to be just like that.

Anything you do will fade. It will disappear, just like the human race will disappear and the planet will disappear. Even the group who colonizes Mars will disappear. No one is going to remember you past a certain number of generations, whether you’re an artist, a poet, a conqueror, a pauper, or anyone else. There’s no meaning. Ravikant is a Fellow of the Edmund Hillary Fellowship. [5] As a podcaster he shares advice on pursuing health, wealth, and happiness.Naval does not shy away from sensational quotes - "99% of effort is wasted". And then goes on and on about how it, the quote, is actually not true, how it is true in a specific context and then ends with "focus your effort on 1% that matters" - maybe he could have started with that. Today, I’m an investor, personally, in about two hundred companies. Advisor to a bunch. I’m on a bunch of boards. I’m also a small partner in a cryptocurrency fund because I’m really into the potential of cryptocurrencies. I’m always cooking up something new. I always have a bunch of side projects.[4]

Investing time/money behind someone? - Do you like them? - Can they teach you something you want to learn? - Good economics? If so, invest.

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MONEY: Another type of leverage is money. It means that whenever you make a decision, you multiply it by a certain amount of money. In the previous century, it was most likely the most common form of leverage. In a world where everyone and everything is connected, there’s an abundance of possibilities. Opportunity is everywhere, but that can make it hard to find your own path, let alone excel at what you do. Only when we know ourselves can we know what we are looking for.