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The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
by Eric Jorgenson
So, the first full-fledged book I read and completed, and the only thing I hate about this book is that it made my standard and expectations very high regarding this medium. From now on, I will judge every book from this standard; it ruined books for me. Don't get me wrong, I am not saying it's perfect, but it's pretty close, and yeah, I am not qualified to critique a book, but I'm not sure if anyone can critique it because writing-wise, it's all over the place like my ADHD brain, the tone and pacing can be a mess. It's a collection, a compilation of thoughts of a person compiled by someone else. So it makes sense that it's a mess, and I liked it. Editing is not good, but who gives a shit about that; everyone is here to get a peek inside this man's head. It was engaging from start to finish. The only place, at the beginning of the happiness chapter, I was a little bored because the things he was talking about were giant and vague, not very definite.
I Know Naval before reading this book; I've seen Rogan's podcast like six times, and hands down, easily the best podcast I've ever listened. So I knew what to expect from this book and got what I wanted. It made me feel many things, from the aha moment I get after understanding what he's talking about to confusion when he goes deep into money-making. From the sheer amount of joy when my philosophy, my ideas got validated by him, not necessary at all but appreciated nonetheless to saying things like "it's pretty obvious what you're talking about, you are just saying it in a very fancy way." These are a wide range of feelings that makes this book very raw and intimate to me. The joy I felt while reading this book and the dopamine hit sometimes it gave me is unparallel. There were a lot of ideas that I can easily criticize, but that's fine because it shows the human part of him, and almost 95 to 98% of things are very intriguing and makes sense, so it didn't matter anyway when he says something stupid or pretty basic thing.
I didn't give any examples because I didn't write any notes while reading this; I've highlighted a shit ton but didn't want to go back for this review, but I will be reading again very soon, so we'll see.
I Know Naval before reading this book; I've seen Rogan's podcast like six times, and hands down, easily the best podcast I've ever listened. So I knew what to expect from this book and got what I wanted. It made me feel many things, from the aha moment I get after understanding what he's talking about to confusion when he goes deep into money-making. From the sheer amount of joy when my philosophy, my ideas got validated by him, not necessary at all but appreciated nonetheless to saying things like "it's pretty obvious what you're talking about, you are just saying it in a very fancy way." These are a wide range of feelings that makes this book very raw and intimate to me. The joy I felt while reading this book and the dopamine hit sometimes it gave me is unparallel. There were a lot of ideas that I can easily criticize, but that's fine because it shows the human part of him, and almost 95 to 98% of things are very intriguing and makes sense, so it didn't matter anyway when he says something stupid or pretty basic thing.
I didn't give any examples because I didn't write any notes while reading this; I've highlighted a shit ton but didn't want to go back for this review, but I will be reading again very soon, so we'll see.