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

Good concept. Good reminder. Don’t wait to read this stuff. It’s a good short little book. I’ll reread it again in future.

One of the best books I’ve read in a long time proud of the author and what he had to say in the book. Some of the teachings I will be practicing myself throughout my life!!! All I can say is Hell Yeah!

Excellent book that every person should aspire to read! No matter who you are or what you do. There’s a take away.

Naval is excellent on leverage, habits, calm, and practical wisdom for navigating modern life. His thinking is clean, disciplined, and often clarifying. However, when he moves from tactics into meaning, spirituality, and ultimate purpose, the framework thins out. His rejection of intrinsic meaning and the afterlife feels less like rigorous reasoning and more like an unexamined metaphysical preference. “Spiritual health” is treated more as mental hygiene than a serious account of truth or accountability. Worth reading for practical insight and clarity of thought—but read with discernment. Insightful, not foundational.

Loved the book. Full of golden nuggets and feels as if written from the heart. Great insights on how to think of life , purpose , happiness and health. Must read.

One of the best read in years. Recommend to buy the paper books (vs audio), as this book you will need to stop, think, and mark. Good book to get real, authentic to yourself, and get peaceful.

Really in depth about life, greatest take away is that the past is dead, and that business comes from action and thinking out of the pack.

While usually quite a fan of most things endorsed by Tim Ferriss, I find this book a bit underwhelming. Firstly, it feels like a compilation of his thoughts posted on twitter throughout the years, and some things which he says resonates with me. However, when he ascertains that the only path to true wealth is to own equity, i disagree. that may lead to riches, but not wealth, and when people rely on equity for their wealth, they have a prediliction to drive up the value, using whatever means necessary. Both the 3rd episode of "billions" and "wonka" conveyed how when business people resort to this mentality, then they often times more than not, sacrifice the quality of what they offer in order to send their profits to the strasophere, even if it means their customers getting substandard service and products. Furthermore, Naval propounds microeconomics while referring to macro to be a scam, since the latter has no fallibility tests; doesn't he realize that macroeconomics, developed right after WW2 and at the end of the great depression led to the biggest and most enduring economic prosperity in modern history, which only began to unravel during the early 70s after the passing of Keynes which finally gave Hayek the unchallenged podium to finally endorse his economic purview, which expostulates central planing except for times of war. Naval also assert that calculus has not place in the world of business; clearly, he never traded corportate bonds and mortgages, and it explains why his stuyvestant high school classmate lost $2 billion in one day Additionally, Naval states that when one has mastered basic math, and science, that he / she will no longer fear reading anything else. Math and sciences, while important, assume rationality, as does the monetarist economics credo of "the markets always being right"; truthfully, the world runs on emotion, regardless how how assertively mathematical and economic models assume rationality. He seems to have based his principles on the influenes of Adam Smith and Charles Darwin, and dot not give much perusal to the works of people who have opposing views. And if you're going to tell people to master basic math, then don't claim to be born in 1974, and then immigrated to the US in 1985 and the age of 9 (well at least on the kindle version which I have, he seems to have corrected this error in an on-line version)

Naval is one of a kind. One of the world’s greatest thinkers. This book is a must read.

I had never heard of Naval Ravikant. Suddenly "The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness" kept popping up on my radar. When the universe calls, you listen. Read the book An excellent book that is full of wisdom. In this blog, I will cover topics at random (from my own filter bubble). My advice is to buy the book and read it (maybe read it a few times). Here it goes: Wealth is a skill set. Seek wealth, not money or status. Focus on specific knowledge. Specific knowledge is the knowledge you cannot be trained for. It cannot be outsourced or automated. Specific knowledge is found by pursuing your genuine curiosity and passion rather than whatever is hot right now. Fortunes require leverage. Business leverage comes from capital, people, and products. Write books and blogs and record videos and podcasts if you can't code. The new generation's fortunes are all made through code or media. Joe Rogan is making $50 million to $100 million a year from his podcast. There is no skill called "business." Avoid business magazines and business classes. Intentions don't matter. Actions do. That's why being ethical is hard. Embrace accountability and take business risks under your own name. Society will reward you with responsibility, equity, and leverage. Accountability is a double-edged thing. It allows you to take credit when things go well and to bear the brunt of failure when things go badly. Skin in the game (he is a fan of Taleb too). Inspiration is perishable—act on it immediately In 1,000 parallel universes, you want to be wealthy in 999 of them. Patience. Immediate doesn't work. People are oddly consistent. Karma is just you, repeating your patterns, virtues, and flaws until you finally get what you deserve. Always pay it forward. And don't keep count. Karma management. If you want to get rich over your life in a deterministically predictable way, stay on the bleeding edge of trends and study technology, design, and art—become really good at something. The definition of wisdom is knowing the long-term consequences of your actions. It's only after you're bored that you have the great ideas. It's never going to be when you're stressed, busy, running around or rushed. Make the time. Facebook redesigns. Twitter redesigns. Personalities, careers, and teams also need redesigns. There are no permanent solutions in a dynamic system. If you can't decide, the answer is no. If you're evenly split on a difficult decision, take the path more painful in the short term. The world just reflects your own feelings back at you. Reality is neutral. Reality has no judgments. You always have three options: you can change it, accept it, or leave it. When everyone is sick, we no longer consider it a disease. World's simplest diet: The more processed the food, the less one should consume. What habit would you say most positively impacts your life? The daily morning workout. I decided my number one priority in life, above my happiness, above my family, above my work, is my health. To have peace of mind, you have to have peace of body first. Your breath is one of the few places where your autonomic nervous system meets your voluntary nervous system. Read "Breathe" Meditation is intermittent fasting for the mind. You're dying and being reborn at every moment. It's up to you whether to forget or remember that. About time Value your time. It is all you have. It's more important than your money. Set and enforce an aspirational personal hourly rate. If fixing a problem will save less than your hourly rate, ignore it. If outsourcing a task will cost less than your hourly rate, outsource it. You just have to set a very high personal hourly rate, and you have to stick to it. Always factor your time into every decision. Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true. You can only achieve mastery in one or two things. It's usually things you're obsessed about If you're not 100 per cent into it, somebody else who is 100 per cent into it will outperform you. Following your genuine intellectual curiosity is a better foundation for a career than following whatever is making money right now. Escape competition through authenticity. About entrepreneurship Without ownership, your inputs are very closely tied to your outputs. Owning equity in a company means you own the upside. You have to work up to the point where you can own equity in a business. You could own equity as a small shareholder where you bought stock. Everybody who really makes money at some point owns a piece of a product, a business, or some IP. There are almost 7 billion people on this planet. Someday, I hope, there will be almost 7 billion companies. Entrepreneurship is the future. What you want in life is to be in control of your time. About freedom What you really want is freedom. You want freedom from your money problems. One way is to have so much money saved that your passive income (without you lifting a finger) covers your burn rate. The second is you just drive your burn rate down to zero—you become a monk. A third is that you're doing something you love. You enjoy it so much, and it's not about the money. So there are multiple ways to retirement. Part of being free means I can say what I think and think what I say. About reputation Compounding in business relationships is very important. Compound interest also happens in your reputation. If you have a sterling reputation and you keep building it for decades upon decades, people will notice. Having a reputation will make people do deals through you. If you are a trusted, reliable, high-integrity, long-term-thinking dealmaker, when other people want to do deals but don't know how to do them in a trustworthy manner with strangers, they will literally approach you and give you a cut of the deal just because of the integrity and reputation you've built up. About reading Reading is faster than listening. Doing is faster than watching. Learn to love to read. I probably read one to two hours a day. That puts me in the top .00001 per cent. When someone mentions a book to me, I buy it. At any given time, I'm reading somewhere between ten and twenty books. I'm flipping through them. Any book that survived for two thousand years has been filtered through many people. The general principles are more likely to be correct. You know that song you can't get out of your head? All thoughts work that way. Careful what you read. About happiness Happiness is not something you inherit or even choose, but a highly personal skill that can be learned, like fitness or nutrition. To me, happiness is not about positive thoughts. It's not about negative thoughts. It's about the absence of desire, especially the absence of desire for external things. Real happiness only comes as a side-effect of peace. Peace is happiness at rest, and happiness is peace in motion. Most of it is going to come from acceptance, not from changing your external environment. I have lowered the chattering of my mind. I don't care about things that don't really matter. I Envy is the enemy of happiness. Happiness is built by habits. Recover time and happiness by minimizing your use of these three smartphone apps: phone, calendar, and alarm clock. A personal metric: how much of the day is spent doing things out of obligation rather than out of interest? Increase serotonin in the brain without drugs: Sunlight, exercise, positive thinking, and tryptophan. You're going to die one day, and none of this is going to matter. So enjoy yourself. Do something positive. Project some love. Make someone happy. Laugh a little bit. Appreciate the moment. And do your work. The thinking There is something deliberate about Naval Ravikant's thinking. It is also very clear. First-principles. Stoicism. Habits. Choices. And keeping it simple. It is an entrepreneur version of "Solve for happy". Which is also a cracking book.

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El libro es muy bueno, tiene demasiadas enseñanzas y opiniones de Naval que enserio te ponen a pensar y que te cambian todo tu panorama. Este es un libro sumamente “pesado”, con pesado quiero decir que es un libro muy interesante en el que (si quieres aprender de el) hay que resaltar, anotar, desarrollar esas ideas. Yo lo obtuve en formato Kindle y empecé a leerlo en Kindle pero de tanto subrayar y realizar notas opte por leerlo en mi computadora. Si se compra en físico es preferente leerlo con un cuaderno y una pluma. No es una lectura para cualquiera debido a que es un libro muy cargado (refiriéndome a las ideas que contiene) pero las enseñanzas en el valen oro.