The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

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I think the most common mistake for humanity is believing you’re going to be made happy because of some external circumstance.” Value your time. It is all you have. It’s more important than your money. It’s more important than your friends. It is more important than anything.“ You will not get rich by renting out your time. To gain financial freedom, you must own equity—a piece of a business. Give society what it wants but does not yet know how to get at scale. 2. Build Judgment He advocates cold exposure, because he believes people are too separate from their natural environment. We’re constantly clothed, fed, and warm. Our bodies have lost touch with the cold. The cold is important because it can activate the immune system. Pursue your genuine curiosity and passion rather than whatever is hot right now. Specific knowledge is often highly technical or creative and cannot be outsourced or automated.

Whenever you can in life, optimize for independence rather than pay. If you have independence and you’re accountable on your output, as opposed to your input— that’s the dream.”If wisdom is the knowledge behind the long-term consequences of your actions, judgment is the knowledge to make the right decision to capitalize on those actions. In the age of leverage, one correct decision can win everything. Judgment is underrated. Real happiness only comes as a side-effect of peace. Most of it is going to come from acceptance, not from changing your external environment.” I could not tell you specific passages or quotes from books. At some deep level, you absorb them, and they become threads in the tapestry of your psyche. They kind of weave in there.” Today, I believe happiness is really a default state. Happiness is there when you remove the sense of something missing in your life.” Your breath is one of the few places where your autonomic nervous system meets your voluntary nervous system. Read "Breathe"

AngelList's Naval Ravikant on Syndicates, Two Months In". November 21, 2013 . Retrieved April 26, 2020. I would say I’m at the stage where I’m just tired of games. I don’t think there is any end goal or purpose. I’m just living life as I want to. I’m literally just doing it moment to moment.” This book is a compilation of some of the best tweets by Naval Ravikant, including the famous 'How to get rich' tweetstorm from 2018, and includes extra commentary from Naval. He explains his ideas and the reasoning behind them in simple,lucid text and lays out his principles of generating wealth succintly. Another method I’ve learned is to just sit there and you close your eyes for at least one hour a day. You surrender to whatever happens—don’t make any effort whatsoever. You make no effort for something, and you make no effort against anything. If there are thoughts running through your mind, you let the thoughts run.Once I came to that realization, jealousy faded away because I don’t want to be anybody else. I’m perfectly happy being me.”