If you don’t already know, I am a Naval fanboy.
I discovered him through Twitter and I will always be grateful for this. I would never would have come across him on Instagram or LinkedIn.
He is one of my favorite thinkers and someone I would call a modern day philosopher. He was one of the reasons I stopped following daily news. Never looked back. Ignorance is bliss.
He is an entrepreneur and angel investor.
He is the CEO and co-founder of AngelList (now Wellfound). He has invested in over 100 companies, including: Uber, Twitter, Yammer, FourSquare, Stack Overflow.
I have gathered the best of Naval (quotes, podcasts, transcripts) so you can go through them and probably change how you think about some things in your life.
Some of the things he said really made me think:
“Desire is a contract that you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want.”
“Doctors won’t make you healthy.
Nutritionists won’t make you slim.
Teachers won’t make you smart.
Gurus won’t make you calm.
Mentors won’t make you rich.
Trainers won’t make you fit.
Ultimately, you have to take responsibility. Save yourself.”“A fit body, a calm mind, a house full of love. These things cannot be bought, they must be earned.”
If you can't code, write books and blogs, record videos and podcasts.
“Branding requires accountability. To build a great personal brand, you must take on the risk of being publicly wrong.”
"Most of what we think we're doing when we're asking for help, when we're going to seminars, when we're watching youtube videos, we're just procrastinating. We're not really serious. When you're serious, you just do it."
“Forty hour workweeks are a relic of the Industrial Age. Knowledge workers function like athletes — train and sprint, then rest and reassess.”
“Someone who is using a lot of fancy words and big concepts probably doesn’t know what they’re talking about. The smartest people can explain things to a child; if you can’t do that, you don’t understand the concept.”
“Read what you love until you love to read.”
“The problem happens when we have multiple desires. When we have fuzzy desires. When we want to do ten different things and we’re not clear about which is the one we care about.”
“You should be too busy to “do coffee," while still keeping an uncluttered calendar.”
“People spend too much time doing and not enough time thinking about what they should be doing.”
“The best book is the one you can’t put down.
The best exercise is the one you enjoy doing every day.
The best health food is the one you find tasty.
The best work is the work you would do for free.”
His life in a page:
His tweet storm that got really viral - How to get rich (without getting lucky)
I have rewatched this a couple of times and it is one of my favorite Joe Rogan Podcast:
Eric Jorgenson wrote a book and curated the best of Naval, it is my most gifted book. Here are some excerpts:
You can download the book for free HERE.
Naval’s recommended readings: CLICK HERE
P.S. I did a meme contest once on twitter and this was one of the memes😂
Someone once asked me if I wanted to meet Naval someday and I said no. Not as of now.
I feel there would be no value for Naval in meeting me. It would be a waste of time if anything for him. And since I admire him so much and know what his mindset is, I would never want to waste his time.
Ciao.
Getting back at reading Mitesh's issues. This one was a good read, G.
Welcome back.