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4.21 AVERAGE
4.21 AVERAGE
Firstly who is Naval Ravikant? Naval is an American entrepreneur and investor, and this book is sold on the premise that Naval is rich and happy and that people tend to be one or the other but not both. So what is Naval’s secret? The author, Eric Jorgenson, is a long-term friend of Naval and admires his philosophy to the extent he wrote a whole book on Naval’s teachings.
By “wrote”, I mean stitch together their conversations over the years, Naval’s Twitter feeds and his one-liners worthy of a Hallmark card, AND it reads as such. The topics do not flow into one another, there is no storyline or character development—just a bunch of disparate opinions from a guy who supposedly has it all figured out.
Naval’s idea of happiness is cultivating peace, taken straight from Buddhist teachings. You would be better off reading the original scriptures. However, when it comes to success in the traditional sense of fame and fortune, there is plenty of original wisdom in this book.
Keep in mind though that these lessons come from a strong entrepreneur who is heavily pro-technology. Reading this book made me feel as if Naval places personal gain over collective gain and through the path of least resistance, not uncommon for entrepreneurial capitalists. However, not everyone will agree with his ideologies. But if you want to make it in the business world then this book has its merits.
By “wrote”, I mean stitch together their conversations over the years, Naval’s Twitter feeds and his one-liners worthy of a Hallmark card, AND it reads as such. The topics do not flow into one another, there is no storyline or character development—just a bunch of disparate opinions from a guy who supposedly has it all figured out.
Naval’s idea of happiness is cultivating peace, taken straight from Buddhist teachings. You would be better off reading the original scriptures. However, when it comes to success in the traditional sense of fame and fortune, there is plenty of original wisdom in this book.
Keep in mind though that these lessons come from a strong entrepreneur who is heavily pro-technology. Reading this book made me feel as if Naval places personal gain over collective gain and through the path of least resistance, not uncommon for entrepreneurial capitalists. However, not everyone will agree with his ideologies. But if you want to make it in the business world then this book has its merits.
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
I'm into books sharing advice so for the most part I enjoyed this. This collection is made up largely of interviews and tweets from Ravikant which were thought-provoking but also because that's all it was, it wasn't as rounded out as it could have been with his direct input. That meant that there were a few times when more context or further explanation would have been helpful which just weren't offered up. There were quotes galore but they were mainly served up in isolation.
Overall though there were a lot of nice reminders in this book, just no entirely new earth shattering ones.
I appreciated the reading list at the end.
Overall though there were a lot of nice reminders in this book, just no entirely new earth shattering ones.
I appreciated the reading list at the end.
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fast-paced
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
I think it's great that Eric Jorgenson compiled the Navalmanack for us, I like how it was presented to us to - deep, with good-wisdom-nuggets. It felt like I too was having a conversation with one of the greats. Now here's to working on my health, relationships with the people I love and my mission - all that while living honest, and being the most authentic version of myself possible.
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lighthearted
fast-paced
I cannot rate this as a book, because it's a collection of one person's thoughts aggregated from different media platforms. It's not quite a memoir or biography, not quite a published diary and not quite a collection of wisdom(s) on any particular subject.
Luckily, the book is relatively short, so I finished it. I don't regret it, but I don't see any immediate benefit to having read it other than it being an extra reminder about the existence of certain ideas, because most concepts here were not new to me. I don't think it can be very useful as a practical guide for anything specific, but if the thoughts in this book sound new to some reader, I could see how such first encounter could be useful to them simply by adding the idea to their mental vocabulary.
I am concluding from this that I am simply not the target audience for this book.
Luckily, the book is relatively short, so I finished it. I don't regret it, but I don't see any immediate benefit to having read it other than it being an extra reminder about the existence of certain ideas, because most concepts here were not new to me. I don't think it can be very useful as a practical guide for anything specific, but if the thoughts in this book sound new to some reader, I could see how such first encounter could be useful to them simply by adding the idea to their mental vocabulary.
I am concluding from this that I am simply not the target audience for this book.