The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
by Eric Jorgenson
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A collection of Naval Ravikant's wisdom on building wealth and finding happiness, curated from his tweets, podcasts, and interviews. Part I covers wealth creation through specific knowledge, leverage, accountability, and judgment. Part II explores happiness as a learnable skill, meditation, philosophy, and personal freedom. Includes Naval's recommended reading list and life formulas. Foreword by Tim Ferriss.
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The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
By Eric Jorgenson
Copyright (c) 2020 Eric Jorgenson
All rights reserved.
ISBN 978-1-5445-1422-2 Hardcover 978-1-5445-1421-5 Paperback 978-1-5445-1420-8 Ebook
This book has been created as a public service. It is available for free download in pdf and e-reader versions on Navalmanack.com.
Naval is not earning any money on this book. Naval has essays, podcasts and more at Nav.al and is on Twitter @Naval.
For my parents, who gave me everything and always seem to find a way to give more.
Contents
- Important Notes on This Book (Disclaimer)
- Foreword by Tim Ferriss
- Eric's Note (About This Book)
- Timeline of Naval Ravikant
- Now, Here Is Naval in His Own Words...
Part I: Wealth
- Building Wealth
- Understand How Wealth Is Created
- Find and Build Specific Knowledge
- Play Long-Term Games with Long-Term People
- Take on Accountability
- Build or Buy Equity in a Business
- Find a Position of Leverage
- Get Paid for Your Judgment
- Prioritize and Focus
- Find Work That Feels Like Play
- How to Get Lucky
- Be Patient
- Building Judgment
- Judgment
- How to Think Clearly
- Shed Your Identity to See Reality
- Learn the Skills of Decision-Making
- Collect Mental Models
- Learn to Love to Read
Part II: Happiness
- Learning Happiness
- Happiness Is Learned
- Happiness Is a Choice
- Happiness Requires Presence
- Happiness Requires Peace
- Every Desire Is a Chosen Unhappiness
- Success Does Not Earn Happiness
- Envy Is the Enemy of Happiness
- Happiness Is Built by Habits
- Find Happiness in Acceptance
- Saving Yourself
- Choosing to Be Yourself
- Choosing to Care for Yourself
- Meditation + Mental Strength
- Choosing to Build Yourself
- Choosing to Grow Yourself
- Choosing to Free Yourself
- Philosophy
- The Meanings of Life
- Live by Your Values
- Rational Buddhism
- The Present Is All We Have
Bonus
- Naval's Recommended Reading
- Books
- Other Recommendations
- Naval's Writing
- Next on Naval
- Appreciation
- Sources
- About the Author