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4.2 AVERAGE
4.2 AVERAGE
I liked the book, I felt it got really preachy at parts. Nice insights, though.
I scribbled and tick marked all throughout the book, dog marked it and got inspired by it. But never lost sight how its a self help book, albeit one of the better ones on the market. At least this one is honest-ish.
Kinda got "go outside and get some sunlight and think on your feet" vibes
Would I recommend it? Yes and No
Would I reread it? Yes
Was it fun? sure
But yeah
"The ontological fallacy of expecting a light at the end of the tunnel, well, that's what the preacher sells, same as a shrink. See, the preacher, he encourages your capacity for illusion. Then he tells you it's a fucking virtue."
(Its so based and cringe to quote Rust Chole, yes. )
I scribbled and tick marked all throughout the book, dog marked it and got inspired by it. But never lost sight how its a self help book, albeit one of the better ones on the market. At least this one is honest-ish.
Kinda got "go outside and get some sunlight and think on your feet" vibes
Would I recommend it? Yes and No
Would I reread it? Yes
Was it fun? sure
But yeah
"The ontological fallacy of expecting a light at the end of the tunnel, well, that's what the preacher sells, same as a shrink. See, the preacher, he encourages your capacity for illusion. Then he tells you it's a fucking virtue."
(Its so based and cringe to quote Rust Chole, yes. )
Stopped reading at the 2nd part of the book after the privileged weathly man said that “happiness is a choice”. Gave it two stars bc the advice in the first half about how to obtain wealth was adequate. Let’s not forget that this guy was a young adult during the dot com boom in the 90s which is how he became successful over time.
hopeful
inspiring
medium-paced
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.