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4.2 AVERAGE
4.2 AVERAGE
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.
Naval is known as the Monk of Silicon Valley. Now I know why.
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.
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.
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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.
informative
fast-paced
informative
inspiring
medium-paced