The Almanack Of Naval Ravikant: A Guide To Wealth And Happiness by Jorgenson, Eric by Eric Jorgenson

The Almanack Of Naval Ravikant: A Guide To Wealth And Happiness by Jorgenson, Eric Reviews

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  Naveen Kumar Rajanala

  Easy read with many pearls of wisdom … this is going to be on my shelf for life
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  Roger Kylberg

  He is just amazing!
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  Alee Hassnain

  great book. Got it as a gift for a colleague
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  Avanindra Patil

  Part 1 Wealth *Building Wealth :Productize Yourself Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.Specific knowledge cannot be thought, but it can be learned. Specific knowledge is the most important.No one can compete with you on being you.Play long term games All the returns in life, whether in wealth, relationships or knowledge, come from compound interests.You surely have studied something in school which you won't need in life. These are learning experiences. You did learn. You learned the value of hard work; you might have learned something that went deep into your psyche and became a piece of what you're doing now.Intentions Don't Matter. Actions Do Embrace accountability and take business risks under your own name. Society will reward you for responsibility, equity and leverage.Retirement is when you stop sacrificing today for an imaginary tomorrow. When today is complete, in and of itself, you're retired.Lusting for money is bad for us because it is a bottomless pit. It will always occupy your mind. If you love money, and you make it, there's never enough. There is never enough because the desire is turned on and doesn't turn off at some number. It's a fallacy to think it turns off at some number. What making money will do is solve your money problems. It will remove a set of things that could get in the way of being happy.Your real resume is justa catalog of an your sufferings. If I ask you to describe your real life too yourself, and you look beach from your deathbed at the interesting things you've find, it's all going to be around sacrifices you made, the hard things you did.*Building Judgement :What we wish to be true, clouds our perception of what is true. Suffering is the moment when we can no longer deny reality. The good news is, the moment of suffering when you're in pain is the moment of truth.Praise specifically, criticize generally.If you cannot decide, the answer is no.Learn to Love To Read.Part 2 Happiness Happiness is what's there when you remove the sense of something is missing in your life. Memories and identity are burdens from the past preventing us from living freely in the present. Acceptance. You're going to die one day, and none of this is going to matter. So enjoy yourself. Appreciate the moment and live in it. Most of our suffering comes from avoidance. Accept it physically, don't suffer mentally.Easy Choices > Hard LifeHard Choices > Easy Lifeeg. Exercise, Eating Healthy Food*Philosophy To find a worthy mate, be worthy of a worthy mate.Before you can lie to another, you must first lie to yourself and that makes you lose trust in yourself.Understand the long term consequences of your actions.Health , love and your mission, in that order. Nothing else matters.
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  P aus M

  Ich war einfach neugierig, was wohl ein 'Almanack' ist. Klar, man kann googeln, aber viel schöner ist es doch, es quasi zu entdecken. 'The almanack is a collection ' Aha, Naval Ravikant ist wohl der Guru, der wohl seine Weisheiten bei Twitter und Vorträgen 'shared'. Eric Jorgenson ist sein mutmaßlich größter Fan und hat Navals Output in diesem Büchlein (Almanack) zusammengetragen hat. Also so eine Art 'Navals Best of'. Da ich kein Anhänger von Personenkulten bin, war ich etwas skeptisch. Aber ich kann beruhigen, Naval respektive Eric haben was zu sagen. Reich und glücklich sein muss sich nicht ausschließen, so die Idee. Letztlich ich es eine bunte Sammlung an Ratschlägen. Von Meditation über das Lesen ('Read what you love until you love to read', S. 115 ), networking ('I think business networking is a complete waste of time' S.85: I agree) und viele weitere. Ungewöhnlich, aber einige nuggets dabei. Unpassend finde ich nur den Bezug zur Religion (S.199) und die falsche Darstellung zur Falsifikation (S. 111). 'If it doesn't make falsifiable predictions, it's not science.' (S. 111) Das ist natürlich Quatsch. Falsifikation dient zur Prüfung von Theorien , ganz unabhängig von Vorausschau. Gute Theorien lassen Schlüsse auf die Zukunft zu. Der Punkt sollte unbedingt nochmal überarbeitet werden, ansonsten gut zu lesen und gut geeignet für Neujahrsvorsätze. Ein Almanach ist übrigens eine jährliche / regelmäßige Ausgabe zu einem bestimmten Fachgebiet, von daher passt die Bezeichnung hier wohl auch nicht so ganz, aber sei es drum.
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  Sanjay K Amaan

  Naval's family moved to the Queens, NY in his childhood and it was really tough initially. He worked at hardware store, family split up. He spent most of his time in library. He was born poor and miserable but he found his way to create wealth and now he is an investor in almost 200 companies including Angelist which he founded.What I like about this book is ease of reading plain and simple english and no repeats (generally inspirational book repeats the thing a lot). If you are entreprenuer you would be able to connect because of less he summed up saying that we need to create corporates expecting that only few people in the world take these hard path.Don't judge the book when you start it, just go with the flow and complete it. I finished it in one stretch and I love referring this book on regular basis.
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  Gautam Wadhwani

  Tweets of Naval have been compiled. I mean, had it been at the level of Warren Buffett and his utterances and letters compiled, it would still be worth a read. But this is pure garbage. Zero takeaways. It's not money that you will waste, rather your time and space in your library.The reviews have been all engineered by the gangs that rule Twitter. Just stay away
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  "gunnergal"

  Hardcover isn’t actually printed. It’s just a paper sleeve. Feels like a cost cutter and isn’t acceptable for £17+