25+ highlights from the latest and greatest Naval podcast (@naval on @tferriss)
Full Podcast: tim.blog/2020/10/14/nav…
THREAD 👇
Full Podcast: tim.blog/2020/10/14/nav…
THREAD 👇
On Richard Feynman:
"He was deeply philosophical, he didn’t take himself nor life too seriously. He appreciated the mysteries of life, he appreciated living life, and he had a lot of fun along the way. To me, he was like a full-stack intellectual hacker of life."
— @naval
"He was deeply philosophical, he didn’t take himself nor life too seriously. He appreciated the mysteries of life, he appreciated living life, and he had a lot of fun along the way. To me, he was like a full-stack intellectual hacker of life."
— @naval
"Applied science is the engine that pulls humanity forward. It eventually becomes technology. That technology allows us to engage in all kinds of pursuits around civilization ... And so I think scientists are still the most unsung heroes of human history."
— @naval
— @naval
"In the real world, you get paid for making good judgments and decisions based on the basics ... So the basics are really important. That’s the steel frame, the foundation for understanding that you need to get through life."
— @naval
— @naval
Naval's #1 tweet from the "How to Get Rich" tweetstorm:
"You’re not going to get rich renting out your time. You must own equity, a piece of a business, to gain your financial freedom"
— @naval
"You’re not going to get rich renting out your time. You must own equity, a piece of a business, to gain your financial freedom"
— @naval
Detailed summary of the full 3.5 hour audio of “How to Get Rich (without getting lucky)” by Naval Ravikant:
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sloww.co/how-to-get-ric…
"The hard parts are not the learning, it is the unlearning ... It’s the beginner’s mind that every great artist, or every great business person has, which is: you have to be willing to start from scratch. You have to be willing to hit reset and go back to zero."
— @naval
— @naval
"There’s no lottery here to win. The lottery is for losers. Lotteries are just attacks on people who can’t do math. Your get-rich-quick schemes are just other people getting rich off of you. There are no shortcuts."
— @naval
— @naval
"Judgment comes from clear thinking. The clear thinking comes from having time to reflect and to pursue your genuine intellectual curiosity."
— @naval
— @naval
"Anxiety is built into the core of who we are. In fact, you could argue that all the mind does all day long is fear-based scenario planning for survival, and then maybe a little bit of greed for replication."
— @naval
— @naval
"The most important relationship you have is with yourself ... That is your world. That is the world you live in. That’s the worldview you have. That’s the lens you see through, and that’s going to determine the quality of your life more than anything else."
— @naval
— @naval
"And if you want to see what the quality of your life actually is ... just sit by yourself, doing nothing. And then you will know what the quality of your life actually is because that’s what you’re always running away from."
— @naval
— @naval
"Proper examination should ruin the life that you’re currently living ... If it doesn’t do that, it’s not real examination. If it doesn’t come attached with destruction of your current life, then you can’t create the new life in which you will not have the anxiety."
— @naval
— @naval
Naval's current reading (and rereading) recommendations:
- Schopenhauer
- Osho
- Krishnamurti
- Kapil Gupta
- Rupert Spira
- Anthony de Mello
- Siddhartha
- Vasistha’s Yoga
- Bhagavad Gita
- Tao Te Ching
- Schopenhauer
- Osho
- Krishnamurti
- Kapil Gupta
- Rupert Spira
- Anthony de Mello
- Siddhartha
- Vasistha’s Yoga
- Bhagavad Gita
- Tao Te Ching
"If you're going to start with one book, start with Anthony de Mello’s 'A Way to Love' or his book 'Awareness.'"
— @naval
— @naval
Naval's Recommended Meditation:
- Sit for 60 minutes every day for at least 60 days
- First thing in the morning
- Sit up with back straight
- Whatever your mind wants to do, you just let it do
"Eventually you will get to a mental state of inbox zero." — @naval
- Sit for 60 minutes every day for at least 60 days
- First thing in the morning
- Sit up with back straight
- Whatever your mind wants to do, you just let it do
"Eventually you will get to a mental state of inbox zero." — @naval
"When the best hour of my day is spent by myself, then the world has very little to offer me. And I can still participate in it, but it doesn’t have that grip on me that it used to. I don’t fear solitary confinement. And I think that is a superpower."
— @naval
— @naval
"The goal of the media these days is to make every problem your problem; that’s how they get attention."
— @naval
— @naval
"What you want to focus on is what’s timeless. Timeless is great. The old questions all have old answers and they’re best consumed from the old practitioners because they were very clear-minded about it."
— @naval
— @naval
The people that I want to spend time around these days, when I look at the common characteristic, they’re highly self-aware...They have a certain separation from their own thoughts and personality that prevents circumstances and their personality from overwhelming them.
— @naval
— @naval
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool."
— Richard Feynman
— Richard Feynman
"You (@naval) represent becoming self-aware and spending time on the timeless while also reserving the right, with competency, to be a very high-level operator in the real world."
— @tferriss
— @tferriss
"Not fooling yourself, paying attention to yourself, not taking yourself too seriously, examining your own thoughts from first principles and doing activities that are intrinsically for you (as opposed to for the external world), they just make your life better."
— @naval
— @naval
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