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Det är säkert många som inte håller med. Jag har full förståelse om man tycker att dagens rubrik kvalificerar som ”click-bait” eller dylikt. Det får gå i så fall, för jag hoppas att många läsare kan ta med sig något tänkvärt från dagens inlägg.

Jag läste nyligen ut boken The Almanack Of Naval Ravikant. Det är en bok som är skriven av Eric Jorgenson. Personligen tycker jag att det är en fantastisk bok som bjöd på mycket klokskap och vishet. Det är en av de bästa böckerna jag har läst och rekommenderar starkt att läsa boken.

Nedan följer en kort beskrivning av Naval samt anteckningar som jag gjorde när jag läste boken.

Naval Ravikant beskrivs som en ikon i Silicon Valley och inom den globala start-up kulturen. Han har grundat flera bolag, t ex Epinions och AngelList. Han är också en ängel-investerare och var en tidig investerare i Twitter.

Naval uppges ha den relativt sällsynta kombinationen av att vara både finansiellt framgångsrik och lycklig. Boken delger visdom som Naval har bjudit på genom årens lopp.

Naval föddes år 1974 i Delhi i Indien. När han var 9 år flyttade han till New York. Han växte upp med sin mamma och sin bror. I New York hängde han efter skolan ofta på biblioteket, där stannade han till stängningsdags. Böckerna var hans enda riktiga vänner. Böckerna, eftersom de bjuder på visdom från historiens största tänkare, är bra vänner.

Som 15-åring jobbade han på ett illegalt cateringföretag som sålde indisk mat. Hans liv tog en positiv vändning när han kom in på ett välrenommerat high school och sedan ett så kallat IVY League universitet. Detta kom att bli hans språngbräda in till tech-sektorn.

Nedan är mycket klokskap och tänkvärda delar.

• Making money is not a thing you do, it is a skill you learn
• Wealth is having assets that earn while you sleep
• Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation game
• You are not going to get rich renting out your time, you must own equity – a piece of a business – to gain your financial freedom
• All the returns in life (wealth, relationships, knowledge etc) come from compound interest
• Don’t partner with cynics and pessimists
• Gain specific knowledge. Specific knowledge is not taught at schools and will feel like play to you but will looks like work to others
• There is no skill called “business”. Avoid business magazines and business classes
• Reading is faster than listening. Doing is faster than watching
• There are no get rich quick schemes. Those are just someone else getting rich off you
• When you are finally wealthy, you will realise it wasn’t what you were seeking in the first place
• Technology democratizes consumption but consolidates production. The best person in the world at anything gets to do it for everyone
• If you are not 100% into it, somebody else who is 100% into it will outperform you. And they won’t just outperform you by a little bit
• The most important skill for getting rich is becoming a perpetual learner
• You can only achieve mastery in one or two things. It is usually things you are obsessed about
• Intentions don’t matter. Actions do
• If you don’t own a piece of a business, you don’t have a path towards financial freedom
• Knowledge only you know or only a small set of people knows is going to come out of your passions and your hobbies
• You are never going to get rich renting out your time
• The one thing you have to avoid is the risk of ruin. Don’t gamble everything on one go
• No one is going to value you more than you value yourself. You just have to set a very high personal hourly rate and you have to stick to it
• Always factor into every decision how much time does it take?
• You have to get out of your relative mindset. Don’t compare with others
• Be positive. Be optimistic
• Money solve your money problems, but it doesn’t solve all your problems
• Wealth is a positive-sum game. Status is a zero-sum game
• The problem with a status game is that you must put other people down to win. That make you into an angry mode. Avoid status games
• I rather be a failed entrepreneur than someone who never tried
• Retirement is when you stop scarifying today for an imaginary tomorrow
• My motivation have shifted from being goal-oriented to being artistic, e.g. see investment as a form of art and not focusing on the money
• Lusting for money is bad, for you, because it is a bottomless pit. It will always occupy your mind. It is a fallacy to think it turns off at some number
• Don’t upgrade your lifestyle as you make money
• Freedom is my number one value
• The closer to me you want to get to be, the better your values have to be
• If you are counting you will run out of patience before success actually arrives
• You need to learn how to be happy
• Amazing how many people confuse wealth and wisdom
• Hard work is overrated. Judgement is underrated
• There is no short-cut to smart
• In an age of leverage, one correct decision can win everything
• If you can’t explain it to a child, you don’t know it
• The more desire I have for something to work out a certain way, the less likely I am to see the truth
• Plan a day each week to just think
• It is only after you are bored you have the great ideas
• It is really important for me to be honest. Praise specifically. Criticize generally
• Decision-making is everything
• The more you know, the less you diversify
• Use mental models
• Eliminate what is not going to work
• If you can’t decide, the answer is no
• The best books to read are the ones you are excited about to read all the time
• Most books have one point to make, skim through if not interesting or skip
• Tell others what you learned from a book
• To think clearly, understand the basics
• You don’t have to finish a book 
• Don’t take yourself too seriously. You are just a monkey with a plan
• Happiness is the most important thing
• The fewer desires I can have, the more I can accept the current state of things, the less my mind is moving. The more present I am, the more happy and content I can be
• Happiness is a choice you make and skill something you develop
• Happiness require presence and peace
• A common mistake is believing you are going to be made happy because of some external circumstance
• Desires is a contract you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want
• By the time people realise they have enough money, they have lost their time and their health 
• Confucius says you have two lives, and the second one begins when you realise you only have one
• Happiness is internal and has little to do with external circumstances
• Envy is the enemy of happiness
• Get rid of as many “should” as you can
• Jealousy is a poisonous emotion, at the end of the day you are no better off with it. You are unhappier
• Choose to be happy and then work at it. It is just like building muscles. Try to be very aware in every moment
• The more you judge, the mort you separate yourself
• First you know it, then you understand it, then you can explain it
• Use the work accept a lot 
• We evolved for scarcity, but live in abundance
• When everyone is sick, we no longer consider it a disease
• The hardest thing is not doing what you want – it is knowing what you want
• Courage is not caring what other people think
• Do not waste your time
• People who live far below their means enjoy a freedom that people busy upgrading their lifestyles can’t fathom
• A taste of freedom can make you unemployable
• Honesty is a core, core, core value. I don’t want to be around dishonest people
• Before you can lie to another person you first must lie to yourself
• Throw out angry people from your life
• Be present above all else