Almanack of Naval Ravikant | A Guide to Wealth 📖

"Move the body, rest the mind." @naval

The real struggle isn’t proletariat vs bourgeois. It’s between high-status elites and wealthy elites. When their cooperation breaks, revolution. -@naval

A contrarian isn’t one who always objects — that’s a confirmist of a different sort. A contrarian reasons independently, from the ground up, and resists pressure to conform. -@naval

Don’t debate people in the media when you can debate them in the marketplace. -@naval

Success is the enemy of learning. It can deprive you of the time and the incentive to start over. Beginner’s mind also needs beginner’s time. -@naval

The fundamental delusion — there is something out there that will make me happy and fulfilled forever. -@naval

Technology is not only the thing that moves the human race forward, but it’s the only thing that ever has. Without technology, we’re just monkeys playing in the dirt. -@naval

Sophisticated foods are bittersweet (wine, beer, coffee, chocolate). Addictive relationships are cooperative and competitive. Work becomes flow at the limits of ability. The flavor of life is on the edge. -@naval

The secret to public speaking is to speak as if you were alone. -@naval

Smart money is just dumb money that’s been through a crash. -@naval

If you’re more passionate about founding a business than the business itself, you can fall into a ten year trap. Better to stay emotionally unattached and select the best opportunity that arises. Applies to relationships too. -@naval

Information is everywhere but its meaning is created by the observer that interprets it. Meaning is relative and there is no objective, over-arching meaning. -@naval

Forty hour workweeks are a relic of the Industrial Age. Knowledge workers function like athletes — train and sprint, then rest and reassess. -@naval

"Move the body, rest the mind." @naval

A fit body, a calm mind, a house full of love. These things cannot be bought — they must be earned. -@naval

"Knowledge is a skyscraper. You can take a shortcut with a fragile foundation of memorization, or build slowly upon a steel frame of understanding." @naval

"It is the mark of a charalatan to explain a simple concept in a complex way." @naval

Before you can lie to another, you must first lie to yourself. -@naval

"The most important trick to be happy is to realize that happiness is a choice that you make and a skill set that you develop. You choose to be happy, and then you work at it. It's just like building muscles." @naval

"Hope is the belief that this moment isn’t good enough." @naval