The Book That Will Change Your Life 📖🔥 + How To Read It For 🆓

 

🚀 The Book in 3 Sentences

1. Earn with your mind not with your time.
2. Happiness is a skill that needs to be developed.
3. Practice Meditation and read a lot of books.

 

🎨 Impressions

It's not just a book, it's a life guide. It's a Phenomenal read. This book covers all the aspect of once life from Wealth creation to happiness to productivity. And the best part is that you can read it for free in PDF version available at there official website.

 

Who Should Read It?

I think this should be required reading for everyone in the world. As i said earlier it's a life guide.

 

☘️ How the Book Changed Me

How my life / behaviour / thoughts / ideas have changed as a result of reading the book.

• It really helped me to solve many of my life problems which are conflicting in my minds for months now in which the foremost is should I quit social media or not. I finally took a decision a quit social media (I deleted my personal Instagram and Snapchat accounts, not the photography one). It's been a week or so and frankly speaking I felt great, now I just enjoy the moment weather it is dining outside, chilling with friends, etc etc rather than taking snaps of it and showing it to people that hey see I am eating this of I am at blah blah place. I felt a peace of Mind. I started living in the moment and enjoy my life more.

 

📒 Summary + Notes

NOTE - These are my highlights from the Book The Almanack of Naval Ravikant. I insist you to read this book you will thanks me later.

• Books make for great friends, because the best thinkers of the last few thousand years tell you their nuggets of wisdom.
• Productize Yourself
• Wealth is the thing you want. Wealth is assets that earn while you sleep. Wealth is the factory, the robots, cranking out things. Wealth is the computer program that’s running at night, serving other customers. Wealth is even money in the bank that is being reinvested into other assets, and into other businesses.
• If you want to be wealthy, you want to figure out which one of those things you can provide for society that it does not yet know how to get but it will want and providing it is natural to you, within your skill set, and within your capabilities.
• No one can compete with you on being you. Most of life is a search for who and what needs you the most.
• focus on the thing that you are really into.
• Basically, when you’re competing with people, it’s because you’re copying them. It’s because you’re trying to do the same thing. But every human is different. Don’t copy.
• If you go to the library and there’s a book you cannot understand, you have to dig down and say, “What is the foundation required for me to learn this?” Foundations are super important.
• It’s ownership versus wage work. If you are paid for renting out your time, even lawyers and doctors, you can make some money, but you’re not going to make the money that gives you financial freedom. You’re not going to have passive income where a business is earning for you while you are on vacation.
• Learn to sell, learn to build. If you can do both, you will be unstoppable.
• Earn with your mind, not your time.
• We waste our time with short-term thinking and busywork. Warren Buffett spends a year deciding and a day acting. That act lasts decades.
• Being at the extreme in your art is very important in the age of leverage.
• Value your time at an hourly rate, and ruthlessly spend to save time at that rate. You will never be worth more than you think you’re worth.
• If you get into a relative mindset, you’re always going to hate people who do better than you, you’re always going to be jealous or envious of them. They’ll sense those feelings when you try and do business with them. When you try and do business with somebody, if you have any bad thoughts or any judgments about them, they will feel it. Humans are wired to feel what the other person deep down inside feels. You have to get out of a relative mindset.
• What is your definition of retirement? Retirement is when you stop sacrificing today for an imaginary tomorrow. When today is complete, in and of itself, you’re retired.
• How do you get there? Well, one way is to have so much money saved that your passive income (without you lifting a finger) covers your burn rate. A second is you just drive your burn rate down to zero—you become a monk. A third is you’re doing something you love. You enjoy it so much, it’s not about the money. So there are multiple ways to retirement.
• I’m always “working.” It looks like work to others, but it feels like play to me. And that’s how I know no one can compete with me on it. Because I’m just playing, for sixteen hours a day. If others want to compete with me, they’re going to work, and they’re going to lose because they’re not going to do it for sixteen hours a day, seven days a week.
• Ways to get lucky: • Hope luck finds you. • Hustle until you stumble into it. • Prepare the mind and be sensitive to chances others miss. • Become the best at what you do. Refine what you do until this is true. Opportunity will seek you out. Luck becomes your destiny.
• If someone is talking a lot about how honest they are, they’re probably dishonest. That is just a little telltale indicator I’ve learned. When someone spends too much time talking about their own values or they’re talking themselves up, they’re covering for something.
• The worst outcome in this world is not having self-esteem. If you don’t love yourself, who will?
• Everybody wants to get rich immediately, but the world is an efficient place; immediate doesn’t work. You do have to put in the time. You do have to put in the hours, and so I think you have to put yourself in the position with the specific knowledge, with accountability, with leverage, with the authentic skill set you have, to be the best in the world at what you do.
• Money buys you freedom in the material world. It’s not going to make you happy, it’s not going to solve your health problems, it’s not going to make your family great, it’s not going to make you fit, it’s not going to make you calm. But it will solve a lot of external problems. It’s a reasonable step to go ahead and make money.
• You don’t get rich by spending your time to save money. You get rich by saving your time to make money.
• What we wish to be true clouds our perception of what is true. Suffering is the moment when we can no longer deny reality.
• It’s actually really important to have empty space. If you don’t have a day or two every week in your calendar where you’re not always in meetings, and you’re not always busy, then you’re not going to be able to think.
• The three big ones in life are wealth, health, and happiness. We pursue them in that order, but their importance is reverse.
• Don’t take yourself so seriously. You’re just a monkey with a plan.
• Maybe happiness is not something you inherit or even choose, but a highly personal skill that can be learned, like fitness or nutrition.
• Happiness is there when you remove the sense of something missing in your life.
• When you have internal silence, then you are content, and you are happy.
• The fewer desires I can have, the more I can accept the current state of things, the less my mind is moving, because the mind really exists in motion toward the future or the past. The more present I am, the happier and more content I will be.
• Happiness is what’s there when you remove the sense that something is missing in your life.
• We think of ourselves as fixed and the world as malleable, but it’s really we who are malleable and the world is largely fixed
• You can be a long-time meditator, but if someone says the wrong thing in the wrong way, you go back to your ego-driven self. It’s almost like you’re lifting one-pound weights, but then somebody drops a huge barbell with a stack of plates on your head.
• Real happiness only comes as a side-effect of peace. Most of it is going to come from acceptance, not from changing your external environment
• Happiness is a choice you make and a skill you develop.
• Memory and identity are burdens from the past preventing us from living freely in the present.
• You can literally destroy your happiness if you spend all of your time living in delusions of the future.
• 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 and go. I think it’s important just being aware the anxiety is making you unhappy. The anxiety is just a series of running thoughts.
• Looking outside yourself for anything is the fundamental delusion.
• The fundamental delusion: There is something out there that will make me happy and fulfilled forever.
• Desire is a contract you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want.
• Happiness is being satisfied with what you have. Success comes from dissatisfaction. Choose.
• He’s at peace, he’s healthy, and whether he makes more money or less money compared to the next person has no effect on his mental state.
• man’s troubles arise because he cannot sit in a room quietly by himself.” If you could just sit for thirty minutes and be happy, you are successful. That is a very powerful place to be, but very few of us get there.
• The reality is life is a single-player game. You’re born alone. You’re going to die alone.
• Perhaps one reason why yoga and meditation are hard to sustain is they have no extrinsic value. Purely single-player games.
• JEALOUSY - Perhaps one reason why yoga and meditation are hard to sustain is they have no extrinsic value. Purely single-player games.
• When working, surround yourself with people more successful than you. When playing, surround yourself with people happier than you.
• The more secrets you have, the less happy you’re going to be.
• No exceptions—all screen activities linked to less happiness, all non-screen activities linked to more happiness.
• You’re going to die one day, and none of this is going to matter So enjoy yourself. Do something positive. Project some love. Make someone happy. Laugh a little bit. Appreciate the moment. And do your work.
• SAVING YOURSELF 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.
• Your goal in life is to find the people, business, project, or art that needs you the most. There is something out there just for you. What you don’t want to do is build checklists and deci sion frameworks built on what other people are doing. You’re never going to be them. You’ll never be good at being somebody else.
• When everyone is sick, we no longer consider it a disease.
• The combination of sugar and fat together is really deadly. You’ve got to watch out for that in your diet.
• World’s simplest diet: The more processed the food, the less one should consume.
• The harder the workout, the easier the day.
• “Easy choices, hard life. Hard choices, easy life.”
• Meditation is intermittent fasting for the mind.
• Time spent undistracted and alone, in self-examination, journaling, meditation, resolves the unresolved and takes us from mentally fat to fit.
• Life-hack: When in bed, meditate. Either you will have a deep meditation or fall asleep. Victory either way.
• just sit there and you close your eyes for at least one hour a day.
• If you can get a free hour of bliss every morning just by sitting and closing your eyes, that is worth its weight in gold. It will change your life.
• Meditation is turning off society and listening to yourself. It only “works” when done for its own sake. Hiking is walking meditation. Journaling is writing meditation. Praying is gratitude meditation. Showering is accidental meditation. Sitting quietly is direct meditation.
• To have peace of mind, you have to have peace of body first.
• “Set up systems, not goals.”
• If there’s something you want to do later, do it now. There is no “later.”
• without self-discipline, update your self-image.
• read. Read everything you can. And not just the stuff that society tells you is good or even books that I tell you to read. Just read for its own sake. Develop a love for it. Even if you have to read romance novels or paperbacks or comic books. There’s no such thing as junk. Just read it all. Eventually, you’ll guide yourself to the things that you should and want to be reading.
• Having the skill of persuasion is important because if you can influence your fellow human beings, you can get a lot done.
• Value your time. It is all you have. It’s more important than your money. It’s more important than your friends. It is more important than anything. Your time is all you have. Do not waste your time.
• The modern struggle: Lone individuals summoning inhuman willpower, fasting, meditating, and exercising… Up against armies of scientists and statisticians weaponizing abundant food, screens, and medicine into junk food, clickbait news, infinite porn, endless games, and addictive drugs.
• Buddhist saying, “Anger is a hot coal you hold in your hand while waiting to throw it at somebody.”
• I always spent money on books. I never viewed that as an expense. That’s an investment to me.

 

Thank You for Reading!

With Love and Respect,

Vishesh 😃

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