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“Surround yourself with people who remind you more of your future than of your past.”
Naval has such a following because he is successful financially AND happy, in the sense that he has focused on learning happiness. Naval built happiness habits, reminders and behaviors that create an inner peace. This episode has Naval’s best ideas on how envy, success, and desire can interfere with your innate happiness, and how you can defend it or win it back. It all starts with realizing that happiness is a choice, and happiness is a skill. You can train yourself into happiness through persp...
Mar 11, 2021•47 min•Ep 5•Transcript available on Metacast
Naval says building good judgement is a foundation to building wealth and getting rich. But how do we build judgement? How do we get smarter? Become wiser? Make better decisions? This episode focuses on Naval’s advice for learning to learn, learning to think, learning to see reality. This helps you make good business decisions, investment decisions, and good partnership decisions. We talk about Naval’s favorite books, mental models, and his techniques for reading. By the end of this episode, we ...
Mar 04, 2021•44 min•Ep 4•Transcript available on Metacast
Naval’s famous tweetstorm ‘How to get Rich’ (without getting lucky) was just the start. This episode has all of the chapters from the Building Wealth section of the book of Naval. You will learn the details of specific knowledge, accountability, building equity, finding leverage and how to play the long game. Learn the principles of wealth that tells you how Naval got rich from his startups, Angellist, and his angel investments. These principles explain how millions of people have gotten rich, a...
Feb 25, 2021•2 hr 32 min•Ep 3•Transcript available on Metacast
I built the Almanack of Naval Ravikant or Navalmanack entirely out of transcripts, Tweets, and talks Naval has shared. Every attempt is made to present Naval in his own words. However, there are a few important points. The transcripts have been edited for clarity and brevity (multiple times). Not all sources are primary (some excerpts are from other writers quoting Naval). I can’t be 100 percent certain of every source’s authenticity. Concepts and interpretations change over time, medium, and co...
Feb 02, 2021•17 min•Ep 2•Transcript available on Metacast