Podcast Notes Key Takeaways

• When you combine things you’re not supposed to combine, people get interested
• Don’t read to finish books. Read to satisfy your intellectual curiosity.
• EVERYBODY on Earth can be wealthy
• Everybody wants to be wealthy, everybody wants to be happy, and everybody wants to be fit
  • Here’s the good news – all 3 of those things can be taught
• Happiness is a choice
• Pick your one overwhelming desire – it’s okay to suffer over that one
  • But let go of every other desire so you can be calm, peaceful, and relaxed
• If you want to operate at peak performance, you need a calm mind
• We live in an age of infinite leverage, and because of that, the impacts of good decision-making are much higher than they used to be
• Forty hour workweeks are a relic of the Industrial Age. Knowledge  workers function like athletes – train and sprint, then rest and reassess.
• The information revolution, by making it easier to communicate, connect, and cooperate, is allowing us to go back to working for ourselves
• We need a culture of continuous adult education
• Society will always create new jobs, but it’s impossible to predict what those jobs will be
  • “I do believe that automation, over a long enough period of time, will replace every non-creative job”
• There are MANY problems with Universal Basic Income
• You won’t see General AI anytime soon
• Naval practices the “art of doing nothing” meditation, here’s how you do it:
  • “Sit down, close your eyes, get in a comfortable position, and whatever happens, happens. If you think, you think. If you don’t think, you don’t think. Don’t put any effort into it.”
• Protect your time like it’s all you have
  • You’ll have to ruthlessly decline meetings if you want to do anything of importance in this world
• Find the thing that feels looks like work to others, but feels like play to you, and then go all in on it

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Naval Ravikant is an entrepreneur and angel investor, a co-author of Venture Hacks, and a co-maintainer of AngelList.