Getting rich is not just about luck; happiness is not just a trait we are born with. These aspirations may seem out of reach, but building wealth and being happy are skills we can learn.
So what are these skills, and how do we learn them? What are the principles that should guide our efforts? What does progress really look like?
Naval Ravikant is an entrepreneur, philosopher, a...
Getting rich is not just about luck; happiness is not just a trait we are born with. These aspirations may seem out of reach, but building wealth and being happy are skills we can learn.
So what are these skills, and how do we learn them? What are the principles that should guide our efforts? What does progress really look like?
Naval Ravikant is an entrepreneur, philosopher, and investor who has captivated the world with his principles for building wealth and creating long-term happiness. The Almanack of Naval Ravikant is a collection of Naval’s wisdom and experience from the last ten years, shared as a curation of his most insightful interviews and poignant reflections. This isn’t a how-to book, or a step-by-step gimmick. Instead, through Naval’s own words, you will learn how to walk your own unique path toward a happier, wealthier life.
This book has been created as a public service. It is available for free download in pdf and e-reader versions on Navalmanack.com. Naval is not earning any money on this book. Naval has essays, podcasts and more at Nav.al and is on Twitter @Naval.
I think the most common mistake for humanity is believing you’re going to be made happy because of some external circumstance. I know that’s not original. That’s not new. It’s fundamental Buddhist wisdom—I’m not taking credit for it. I think I really just recognize it on a fundamental level, including in myself.
We bought a new car. Now, I’m waiting for the new car to arrive. Of course, every night, I’m on the forums reading about the car. Why? It’s a silly object. It’s a silly car. It’s not going to change my life much or at all. I know the instant the car arrives I won’t care about it anymore. The thing is, I’m addicted to the desiring. I’m addicted to the idea of this external thing bringing me some kind of happiness and joy, and this is completely delusional. (查看原文)
Happiness is such an overloaded word, I’m not even sure what it means. For me these days, happiness is more about peace than it is about joy. I don’t think peace and purpose go together
If it’s your internal purpose, the thing you most want to do, then sure, you’ll be happy doing it. But an externally inflicted purpose, like “society wants me to do X,” “I am the first son of the first son of this, so I should do Y,” or “I have this debt or burden I took on,” I don’t think it will make you happy.
It’s most obvious if you ever just sit down and try and do nothing, nothing. I mean nothing, I mean not read a book, I mean not listen to music, I mean literally just sit down and do nothing. You can’t do it, because there’s anxiety always trying to make you get up and go, get up and go, get up an... (查看原文)
我喜欢这种风格的表达。简洁文字，有启发有余韵，值得细细体会。出书方式挺有意思的，一个读者花了2年时间把naval ravikant 网站和博客和Twitter的想法汇总，挺好。naval从wealth 和 Happiness两个角度 审视生活。specific hnowledge , play long-term games ,take an accountability ,build equil...我喜欢这种风格的表达。简洁文字，有启发有余韵，值得细细体会。出书方式挺有意思的，一个读者花了2年时间把naval ravikant 网站和博客和Twitter的想法汇总，挺好。naval从wealth 和 Happiness两个角度 审视生活。specific hnowledge , play long-term games ,take an accountability ,build equilty ,leverage ,judgement ,skillset .Happiness is built by habits .还是提醒自己，“知道并不等于做到”。很多知识只能被感悟，不能被教授。有空整理摘抄20201210NO1(展开)
关于迅速行动 Inspiration is perishable—act on it immediately. 凡事想到就要行动起来，好的点子很快会消失，所以想到就要记下来，马上行动安排起来。 If there’s something you want to do later, do it now. There is no “later. 做事要趁早，行动要迅速，想到就要行动...
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“Is there a self-actualization dance I’m doing?” “Is there a specific thing I desire just for the heck of it?” I don’t buy the everlasting afterlife answers because it’s insane to me, with absolutely no evidence, to believe because of how you live seventy years here on this planet, you’re going to spend eternity, which is a very long time, in some afterlife. What kind of silly God judge...
2021-06-26 19:04
“Is there a self-actualization dance I’m doing?”
“Is there a specific thing I desire just for the heck of it?”引自第195页I don’t buy the everlasting afterlife answers because it’s insane to me, with absolutely no evidence, to believe because of how you live seventy years here on this planet, you’re going to spend eternity, which is a very long time, in some afterlife. What kind of silly God judges you for eternity based on some small period of time here? I think after this life, it’s very much like before you were born. Remember that? It’s going to be just like that.
Before you were born, you didn’t care about anything or anyone, including your loved ones, including yourself, including humans, including whether we go to Mars or whether we stay on planet Earth, whether there’s an AI or not. After death, you just don’t care either.引自第195页Anyone around whom I can’t be fully honest, I don’t want to be around.引自第197页Generally, I find if people are fighting or quarreling about something, it’s because their values don’t line up. If their values lined up, the little things wouldn’t matter.引自第198页I don’t even remember what I said two minutes ago. At best, the past is some fictional little memory tape in my head. As far as I’m concerned, my past is dead. It’s gone. All death really means is that there are no more future moments.引自第202页
Use your judgment to figure out what kinds of environments you can thrive in, and then create an environment around you so you’re statistically likely to succeed. I think almost everything that people read these days is designed for social approval. At some level, you’re doing it for social approval. You’re doing it to fit in with the other monkeys. You’re fitting in to get along with the h...
2021-06-26 18:35
Use your judgment to figure out what kinds of environments you can thrive in, and then create an environment around you so you’re statistically likely to succeed.引自第183页I think almost everything that people read these days is designed for social approval.
At some level, you’re doing it for social approval. You’re doing it to fit in with the other monkeys. You’re fitting in to get along with the herd. That’s not where the returns are in life. The returns in life are being out of the herd.
Social approval is inside the herd. If you want social approval, definitely go read what the herd is reading. It takes a level of contrarianism to say, “Nope. I’m just going to do my own thing. Regardless of the social outcome, I will learn anything I think is interesting.”
引自第185页Courage isn’t charging into a machine gun nest. Courage is not caring what other people think.引自第189页If you hurt other people because they have expectations of you, that’s their problem. If they have an agreement with you, it’s your problem. But, if they have an expectation of you, that’s completely their problem. It has nothing to do with you. They’re going to have lots of expectations out of life. The sooner you can dash their expectations, the better.引自第188页Don’t spend your time making other people happy. Other people being happy is their problem. It’s not your problem. If you are happy, it makes other people happy. If you’re happy, other people will ask you how you became happy and they might learn from it, but you are not responsible for making other people happy.引自第189页People who live far below their means enjoy a freedom that people busy upgrading their lifestyles can’t fathom.
引自第190页
“Is there a self-actualization dance I’m doing?” “Is there a specific thing I desire just for the heck of it?” I don’t buy the everlasting afterlife answers because it’s insane to me, with absolutely no evidence, to believe because of how you live seventy years here on this planet, you’re going to spend eternity, which is a very long time, in some afterlife. What kind of silly God judge...
2021-06-26 19:04
“Is there a self-actualization dance I’m doing?”
“Is there a specific thing I desire just for the heck of it?”引自第195页I don’t buy the everlasting afterlife answers because it’s insane to me, with absolutely no evidence, to believe because of how you live seventy years here on this planet, you’re going to spend eternity, which is a very long time, in some afterlife. What kind of silly God judges you for eternity based on some small period of time here? I think after this life, it’s very much like before you were born. Remember that? It’s going to be just like that.
Before you were born, you didn’t care about anything or anyone, including your loved ones, including yourself, including humans, including whether we go to Mars or whether we stay on planet Earth, whether there’s an AI or not. After death, you just don’t care either.引自第195页Anyone around whom I can’t be fully honest, I don’t want to be around.引自第197页Generally, I find if people are fighting or quarreling about something, it’s because their values don’t line up. If their values lined up, the little things wouldn’t matter.引自第198页I don’t even remember what I said two minutes ago. At best, the past is some fictional little memory tape in my head. As far as I’m concerned, my past is dead. It’s gone. All death really means is that there are no more future moments.引自第202页
Use your judgment to figure out what kinds of environments you can thrive in, and then create an environment around you so you’re statistically likely to succeed. I think almost everything that people read these days is designed for social approval. At some level, you’re doing it for social approval. You’re doing it to fit in with the other monkeys. You’re fitting in to get along with the h...
2021-06-26 18:35
Use your judgment to figure out what kinds of environments you can thrive in, and then create an environment around you so you’re statistically likely to succeed.引自第183页I think almost everything that people read these days is designed for social approval.
At some level, you’re doing it for social approval. You’re doing it to fit in with the other monkeys. You’re fitting in to get along with the herd. That’s not where the returns are in life. The returns in life are being out of the herd.
Social approval is inside the herd. If you want social approval, definitely go read what the herd is reading. It takes a level of contrarianism to say, “Nope. I’m just going to do my own thing. Regardless of the social outcome, I will learn anything I think is interesting.”
引自第185页Courage isn’t charging into a machine gun nest. Courage is not caring what other people think.引自第189页If you hurt other people because they have expectations of you, that’s their problem. If they have an agreement with you, it’s your problem. But, if they have an expectation of you, that’s completely their problem. It has nothing to do with you. They’re going to have lots of expectations out of life. The sooner you can dash their expectations, the better.引自第188页Don’t spend your time making other people happy. Other people being happy is their problem. It’s not your problem. If you are happy, it makes other people happy. If you’re happy, other people will ask you how you became happy and they might learn from it, but you are not responsible for making other people happy.引自第189页People who live far below their means enjoy a freedom that people busy upgrading their lifestyles can’t fathom.
引自第190页
“Is there a self-actualization dance I’m doing?” “Is there a specific thing I desire just for the heck of it?” I don’t buy the everlasting afterlife answers because it’s insane to me, with absolutely no evidence, to believe because of how you live seventy years here on this planet, you’re going to spend eternity, which is a very long time, in some afterlife. What kind of silly God judge...
2021-06-26 19:04
“Is there a self-actualization dance I’m doing?”
“Is there a specific thing I desire just for the heck of it?”引自第195页I don’t buy the everlasting afterlife answers because it’s insane to me, with absolutely no evidence, to believe because of how you live seventy years here on this planet, you’re going to spend eternity, which is a very long time, in some afterlife. What kind of silly God judges you for eternity based on some small period of time here? I think after this life, it’s very much like before you were born. Remember that? It’s going to be just like that.
Before you were born, you didn’t care about anything or anyone, including your loved ones, including yourself, including humans, including whether we go to Mars or whether we stay on planet Earth, whether there’s an AI or not. After death, you just don’t care either.引自第195页Anyone around whom I can’t be fully honest, I don’t want to be around.引自第197页Generally, I find if people are fighting or quarreling about something, it’s because their values don’t line up. If their values lined up, the little things wouldn’t matter.引自第198页I don’t even remember what I said two minutes ago. At best, the past is some fictional little memory tape in my head. As far as I’m concerned, my past is dead. It’s gone. All death really means is that there are no more future moments.引自第202页
Use your judgment to figure out what kinds of environments you can thrive in, and then create an environment around you so you’re statistically likely to succeed. I think almost everything that people read these days is designed for social approval. At some level, you’re doing it for social approval. You’re doing it to fit in with the other monkeys. You’re fitting in to get along with the h...
2021-06-26 18:35
Use your judgment to figure out what kinds of environments you can thrive in, and then create an environment around you so you’re statistically likely to succeed.引自第183页I think almost everything that people read these days is designed for social approval.
At some level, you’re doing it for social approval. You’re doing it to fit in with the other monkeys. You’re fitting in to get along with the herd. That’s not where the returns are in life. The returns in life are being out of the herd.
Social approval is inside the herd. If you want social approval, definitely go read what the herd is reading. It takes a level of contrarianism to say, “Nope. I’m just going to do my own thing. Regardless of the social outcome, I will learn anything I think is interesting.”
引自第185页Courage isn’t charging into a machine gun nest. Courage is not caring what other people think.引自第189页If you hurt other people because they have expectations of you, that’s their problem. If they have an agreement with you, it’s your problem. But, if they have an expectation of you, that’s completely their problem. It has nothing to do with you. They’re going to have lots of expectations out of life. The sooner you can dash their expectations, the better.引自第188页Don’t spend your time making other people happy. Other people being happy is their problem. It’s not your problem. If you are happy, it makes other people happy. If you’re happy, other people will ask you how you became happy and they might learn from it, but you are not responsible for making other people happy.引自第189页People who live far below their means enjoy a freedom that people busy upgrading their lifestyles can’t fathom.
引自第190页
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“Is there a self-actualization dance I’m doing?” “Is there a specific thing I desire just for the heck of it?” I don’t buy the everlasting afterlife answers because it’s insane to me, with absolutely no evidence, to believe because of how you live seventy years here on this planet, you’re going to spend eternity, which is a very long time, in some afterlife. What kind of silly God judge...
1 有用 成成成成成成、 2021-05-11
感觉是一本每年都要重读一遍的书。
3 有用 cynthia 2021-01-23
我喜欢这种风格的表达。简洁文字，有启发有余韵，值得细细体会。出书方式挺有意思的，一个读者花了2年时间把naval ravikant 网站和博客和Twitter的想法汇总，挺好。naval从wealth 和 Happiness两个角度 审视生活。specific hnowledge , play long-term games ,take an accountability ,build equil... 我喜欢这种风格的表达。简洁文字，有启发有余韵，值得细细体会。出书方式挺有意思的，一个读者花了2年时间把naval ravikant 网站和博客和Twitter的想法汇总，挺好。naval从wealth 和 Happiness两个角度 审视生活。specific hnowledge , play long-term games ,take an accountability ,build equilty ,leverage ,judgement ,skillset .Happiness is built by habits .还是提醒自己，“知道并不等于做到”。很多知识只能被感悟，不能被教授。有空整理摘抄20201210NO1 (展开)
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0 有用 ccangelacc 2021-10-24
Taught me invaluable lessons about wealth and reinforced my view towards happiness. My best read in 2021 so far!
5 有用 青夜沉 2021-01-19
啥事干七年都能成为专家...专注脆皮鸭文学十五年，我是不是也算专家了
0 有用 达达尼奥 2021-11-22
inspiring
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0 有用 月亮与六便士 2021-10-31
happiness=reality-expectation
0 有用 蘑菇先森 2021-10-31
be at present,be yourself
0 有用 ccangelacc 2021-10-24
Taught me invaluable lessons about wealth and reinforced my view towards happiness. My best read in 2021 so far!