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4.21 AVERAGE
4.21 AVERAGE
informative
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
challenging
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
reflective
fast-paced
Liked the part on happiness, the wealth part did not feel super applicable to life right now
This book wasn't for me. It came highly recommended, but it was only disappointing.
The book is a collection of tweets and interviews from Naval. That is it. Do not expect more!
The book is a collection of tweets and interviews from Naval. That is it. Do not expect more!
Notes from Naval Ravikant:
1. If you are walking on the street and you are judging everyone. The more you judge the more you gonna separate yourself. You will feel good for an instinct because you feel good about yourself, thinking you are better than someone. Later, you are going to feel lonely. Then, you see negativity everywhere. The world just reflects your own feeling back to you.
2. You have to do hard things anyway to create your own meaning in life. When you are on your deathbed and get asked what is the most interesting thing you have done, you will include all your sacrifices.
3. Reality is neutral. Reality has no judgment. Happiness is a choice.
4. Retirement is when you stop sacrificing today for an imaginary tomorrow. When today is complete in and itself, you are retired.
5. You can`t get away from your psyche- don`t do things that you are not proud of.
6. The way to get out of the competition trap is to be authentic, to find the thing you know how to do better than anyone.
7. Watch your thoughts once in a while.
8. Happiness is not about positive thoughts. It is not about negative thoughts. It is about the absence of desire, especially the absence of desire for external things. The more present I am the happier and more content I will be.
9. Desire is a contract you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want.
10. I like to be aware of my desire because I can choose my desires very carefully. I try not to have more than one desire in my life at a time, and I also recognize it as the axis of my suffering. I realize the area where I have chosen to be unhappy.
11. If you can`t see yourself working with someone for life, don`t work with them for a day.
12. One day, I realized with all these people I was jealous of, I couldn`t just choose little aspects of their life. I couldn`t say I want his body, I want her money. I want her personality. You have to be that person. Do you want to actually be that person with all of their reactions, their desires, their family, their happiness level, their outlook on life, and their self-esteem? If you are not willing to do a wholesale, 24/7. 100 percent swap with that person is, then there is no point in being jealous.
13. In any situation in life, you always have 3 choices: you can change it, you can accept it, or you can leave it. Acceptance is better in most cases.
14. Death is the most important thing that is ever going to happen to you. When you look at your death and you acknowledge it, rather than running away from it, it will bring great meaning to your life. We spend so much of our life trying to avoid death. So much of what we struggle for can be classified as a quest for immortality.
15. Easy choice, hard life. Hard choice, easy life.
16. Do not read for social approval, not because society tells you so, read because you think it is interesting. Read because it uniquely appeals to you. Do not read because you were assigned to, read because you want to. Read for its own sake.
17. The return of life is being out of the herd.
18. Your time is all you have. Do not waste your time.
19. Advice to your younger self "Be exactly who you are."
20. Never be in an environment or around people where you have to watch what you say. If you disconnect what you are thinking from what you are saying, it creates multiple threads in your mind. You are no longer in the moment-- now you have to be future-planning or past-regretting every time you talk to somebody.
21. As for as I am concerned, my past is dead. It is gone.
22. Stop asking why and start asking wow.
1. If you are walking on the street and you are judging everyone. The more you judge the more you gonna separate yourself. You will feel good for an instinct because you feel good about yourself, thinking you are better than someone. Later, you are going to feel lonely. Then, you see negativity everywhere. The world just reflects your own feeling back to you.
2. You have to do hard things anyway to create your own meaning in life. When you are on your deathbed and get asked what is the most interesting thing you have done, you will include all your sacrifices.
3. Reality is neutral. Reality has no judgment. Happiness is a choice.
4. Retirement is when you stop sacrificing today for an imaginary tomorrow. When today is complete in and itself, you are retired.
5. You can`t get away from your psyche- don`t do things that you are not proud of.
6. The way to get out of the competition trap is to be authentic, to find the thing you know how to do better than anyone.
7. Watch your thoughts once in a while.
8. Happiness is not about positive thoughts. It is not about negative thoughts. It is about the absence of desire, especially the absence of desire for external things. The more present I am the happier and more content I will be.
9. Desire is a contract you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want.
10. I like to be aware of my desire because I can choose my desires very carefully. I try not to have more than one desire in my life at a time, and I also recognize it as the axis of my suffering. I realize the area where I have chosen to be unhappy.
11. If you can`t see yourself working with someone for life, don`t work with them for a day.
12. One day, I realized with all these people I was jealous of, I couldn`t just choose little aspects of their life. I couldn`t say I want his body, I want her money. I want her personality. You have to be that person. Do you want to actually be that person with all of their reactions, their desires, their family, their happiness level, their outlook on life, and their self-esteem? If you are not willing to do a wholesale, 24/7. 100 percent swap with that person is, then there is no point in being jealous.
13. In any situation in life, you always have 3 choices: you can change it, you can accept it, or you can leave it. Acceptance is better in most cases.
14. Death is the most important thing that is ever going to happen to you. When you look at your death and you acknowledge it, rather than running away from it, it will bring great meaning to your life. We spend so much of our life trying to avoid death. So much of what we struggle for can be classified as a quest for immortality.
15. Easy choice, hard life. Hard choice, easy life.
16. Do not read for social approval, not because society tells you so, read because you think it is interesting. Read because it uniquely appeals to you. Do not read because you were assigned to, read because you want to. Read for its own sake.
17. The return of life is being out of the herd.
18. Your time is all you have. Do not waste your time.
19. Advice to your younger self "Be exactly who you are."
20. Never be in an environment or around people where you have to watch what you say. If you disconnect what you are thinking from what you are saying, it creates multiple threads in your mind. You are no longer in the moment-- now you have to be future-planning or past-regretting every time you talk to somebody.
21. As for as I am concerned, my past is dead. It is gone.
22. Stop asking why and start asking wow.
Not sure if its because I already have internalized most of these but I didn't find much here. There's a lot of quality advice in general but I kept getting the feeling that here's some guy who's done pretty well in life but the author is trying to abstract his insights and leanings to everyone in the whole world. The book also feels like a series of tweets or blogs posts most of the time. Nothing wrong with that but the author didn't do much to mold the content into a book format. Overall great stuff and will keep coming back to this book for quotes but not the most cohesive book.
call me pretentious for giving this 5 stars, i don't care! endless highlighting, note-taking, pondering. this is a book i will reference and ruminate on for years to come. only con were some of the spiritual dogma that felt trivial.