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Naval
Naval
Smash Notes has 30 notes from 10 episodes of Naval. Each note answers one question with the moment it was said, so you can read it or play just that part. Topics: Business, Philosophy, Society & Culture.
Naval on wealth creation. On Twitter at @naval.
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Trending questions
- 01How to Attain Peace in LifeHappiness Is Peace in Motion
- 02Does Naval Ravikant Think a Stress-free Mind Is the Goal?Happiness Is Peace in Motion
- 03How Can You Attract Deals in BusinessBeing Ethical Is Long-term Greedy
- 04Why Does It Pay to Be Honest in BusinessBeing Ethical Is Long-term Greedy
- 05Why Are Ethics Imperative for the Long-term Success in BusinessBeing Ethical Is Long-term Greedy
- 06What Does Naval Ravikant Say the Point of Money Is?A Calm Mind, a Fit Body, a House Full of Love
- 07Which Three Things Does Naval Ravikant Say No Amount of Money Can Buy?A Calm Mind, a Fit Body, a House Full of Love
- 08What Is EntrepreneurshipGive Society What It Doesn't Know How to Get
- 09How Can I Make Something People WantGive Society What It Doesn't Know How to Get
- 10How Does Naval Ravikant Say Someone Actually Gets Rich?Give Society What It Doesn't Know How to Get
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Episodes with Notes
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Seek Wealth, Not Money or Status
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- Knowledge Makes the Existence of Resources Infinite
- Groups Never Admit Failure
- Making Something Social Destroys the Truth of It
- Free Markets Provide the Best Feedback
- The Poverty of Compromise
- Innovation Requires Decentralization and a Frontier
- Don’t Rely on Credibility Stamps
- One Einstein Is Worth A Legion Of PhD Drones
- Ideas Are the New Oil
- Aliens Would Visit for Knowledge, Not Resources
- Aliens Might Just Be Too Far Away
- If You Can’t Program It, You Don’t Understand It
- The Probability of Human Existence Is Infinitesimally Small
- Intelligent Species Have Only Risen Once on Planet Earth
- Where Are the Aliens?
- It’s Mind Blowing That Our Minds Can’t Be Blown
- More Compute Power Doesn’t Produce AGI
- We Are Qualitatively Different From Other Species
- Humans Are Exceptional
- Genetic Evolution Was a Prelude to Mimetic Evolution
- There Can Be No Final Theory of Gravity
- No Truth Can Be Justified
- With a Good Theory of Knowledge, You Can Decide What Else Is True
- The Beginning of Infinity
- Rational Optimism Is the Way Out
- Pessimism Appears to Be the Intellectually Serious Position
- It’s Easy to Extrapolate How Things Will Get Worse
- We’re All Equal in Our Infinite Ignorance
- It’s Rare to Have Competing, Viable, Scientific Theories
- Science Advances One Funeral at a Time
- Make Bold Guesses and Weed Out the Failures
- Science Is About Explanations, Not Predictions
- Science Does Not Aim to Predict the Future From the Past
- Science Broadens Our Vision of Reality
- We Explain the Seen in Terms of the Unseen
- The Multiverse
- Is Light a Particle or a Wave?
- Probability Is Subjective
- We Will Never Prove Most Theorems
- Every Mathematical Theory Is Held Inside a Physical Substrate
- The Ancient Tension Between the Discrete and Continuous
- All Knowledge Is Conjectural
- The Methods of Mathematics Are Fallible
- There Is No Settled Mathematics
- There Is No End of Science
- Good Explanations Are Hard to Vary
- Good Explanations Are Acts of Creativity
- Humans Are Unique in Our Ability to Understand Things
- It’s Impossible to Predict the Future Growth of Knowledge
- People Are a Force of Nature
- We’re at the Beginning of an Infinity of Knowledge
- Happiness
- Read the Best 100 Books Over and Over Again
- We Can Have Explanations That Reach the Entire Universe
- Nullius in Verba
- The Beginning of Infinity
- Science Is the Engine That Pulls Humanity Forward
- Matt Ridley: How Innovation Works, Part 2
- Matt Ridley: How Innovation Works, Part 1
- How to Angel Invest, Part 2
- The Path to Peace Is Truth
- Groups Search for Consensus, Individuals Search for Truth
- The Closer You Are to the Truth, the More Silent You Become Inside
- Finding Peace from Mind
- Breaking Addiction is Socially Unacceptable
- The Modern Struggle Is Weaponized Addiction
- Work the Least for It
- Being Unhappy Is Inefficient
- If You’re So Smart, Why Aren’t You Happy?
- Desire Is a Contract You Make to Be Unhappy
- Happiness Is a Skill You Can Develop
- Happiness Is Not Science or Math
- You Can Buy Your Way Out of Unhappiness
- If You Live Long Enough, You Become a Philosopher
- How to Get Rich: Every Episode + Extras
- How to Angel Invest
- Externalities: Calculating the Hidden Costs of Products
- Net Present Value: What Future Income Is Worth Today
- Consumer Surplus: Getting More Than You Paid for
- Price Discrimination: Charge Some People More
- Compounding Relationships Make Life Easier
- Turn Short-Term Games Into Long-Term Games
- Schelling Point: Cooperating Without Communicating
- Kelly Criterion: Avoid Ruin
- Principal-Agent Problem: Act Like an Owner
- Envy Can Be Useful, or It Can Eat You Alive
- We Should Eventually Be Working for Ourselves
- How to Get Rich: Every Episode
- Productize Yourself
- There Are No Get Rich Quick Schemes
- Eventually You Will Get What You Deserve
- Play Stupid Games, Win Stupid Prizes
- Escape Competition Through Authenticity
- Keep Redefining What You Do
- Be Too Busy to “Do Coffee”
- Work as Hard as You Can
- Set an Aspirational Hourly Rate
- Judgment Is the Decisive Skill
- Example: From Laborer to Real Estate Tech
- Pick a Business Model With Leverage
- Product Leverage Is Egalitarian
- Product and Media Are New Leverage
- Labor and Capital Are Old Leverage
- Take Accountability to Earn Equity
- Embrace Accountability to Get Leverage
- There's No Actual Skill Called Business
- Read What You Love Until You Love to Read
- Learn to Sell, Learn to Build—You'll Be Unstoppable
- Arm Yourself With Specific Knowledge
- Pick Partners With Intelligence, Energy and Integrity
- Play Long-term Games With Long-term People
- The Internet Has Massively Broadened Career Possibilities
- Live Below Your Means for Freedom
- You Won't Get Rich Renting Your Time
- Make Luck Your Destiny
- Making Money Isn't About Luck
- Free Markets Are Intrinsic to Humans
- Ethical Wealth Creation Makes Abundance
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