The Almanack Of Naval Ravikant

Recommended Books (3): - Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli - The Compleat Strategyst: Being a Primer on the Theory of Games of Strategy by J.D. Williams - The Evolution of Cooperation by Robert Axelrod. - The Book of Life by Jiddu Krishnamurti - Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti by Jiddu Krishnamurti - Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

Recommended Books (2): - Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words by Randall Munroe - Thinking Physics: Understandable Practical Reality by Lewis Carroll Epstein - The Lessons of History by Will and Ariel Durant - The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age by James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg - Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger by Charlie Munger (edited by Peter Kaufman) - Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity by Carlo Rovelli

Recommended Books (1): - Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari - The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves by Matt Ridley The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World by David Deutsch - Skin in the Game by Nassim Taleb - The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophieal and Practioal Aphoriame by Nassim Taleb - Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher by Richard Feynman

All benefts in life come thom com und interest, whether in money, relationships, love, health, activities, or habits. lonly want to be around people I know I'm going to be around for the rest of my life. I only want to work on things I know have long-term payout.

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. Your time is all you have. Do not waste your time. This doesn't mean you can't relax. As long as you're doing what you want, it's not a waste of your time. But if you're not spending your time doing what you want, and you're not earning, and you're not learning--what the heck are you doing?

Related to the skill of reading are the skills of mathematics and persuasion. Both skills help you to navigate through the real world. Having the skill of persuasion is important because if you can influence your fellow human beings, you can get a lot done. I think persuasion is an actual skill. So you can learn it, and it's not that hard to do so.

If you had to pass down to your kids one or two principles, what would they be? Read, Read everything you can. And not just the stuff that society tells you is good or even books that I tell you to read, Just read for its own sake, Develop a love for it. Bren if you have to read romance novels or ogderbacks ge core books. There's no such thing as junk. Just read it all, Eventually, you'll guide yourself to the things that you should and want to be reading,

You always have three options: you can change it, you can accept it, or you can leave it. What is not a good option is to sit around wishing you would change it but not changing it, wishing you could leave it but not leaving it and not accepting it. That struggle or aversion is responsible for most of our misery. The phrase I probably use the most to myself in my head is just one word: "accept."

There's the "five chimps theory" where you can predict a chimp's behavior by the five chimps it hangs out with the most. I think that applies to humans as well. Maybe it's politically incorrect to say you should choose your friends very wisely. But you shouldn't choose them haphazardly based on who you live next to or who you happen to work with. The people who are the most happy and optimistic choose the right five chimps.