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A review by sakritamaharjan
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness by Eric Jorgenson
3.0
I want to start by saying that the book is freely available in the official website https://www.navalmanack.com
The book is basically a collection of 'If I can do it, so can you' advices.
It was just okay for me. I didn't find it ground-breaking or the ideas especially compelling. The format of writing felt like snippets from a Ted talks - it was like reading highlighted theme and concept from a much more deep and detailed lecture. This format simply didn't work for me. It leaves the reader wanting for more explanation, details, anecdotes or even more meaning to the original statement. The author simply filled the entire book with so much fluff that it became hard to draw out actual useful concepts from it.
However, having said that the book is not totally useless. There are a lot of good advices in the book. I just wish there was more elaboration on the concept. But For someone who is new to self help books, this might be a good starting point. It has some good ideas and takeaways such as:
1. Wealth comes from assets, not money.
2. Focus on creating leverage : labor and capital. Leverage is a tool you use to amplify your efforts.
3. you can be wealthy if you focus on developing specific knowledge that makes you unique
4. Value your time at an hourly rate and work to save that time
5. Play Long-Term Games With Long-Term People. invest in compound interest in most aspect of life including relationships
6. The freedom is to have control of your time, unlike a 9–5.
7. To build specific knowledge, read what you love until you love to read.
The book is basically a collection of 'If I can do it, so can you' advices.
It was just okay for me. I didn't find it ground-breaking or the ideas especially compelling. The format of writing felt like snippets from a Ted talks - it was like reading highlighted theme and concept from a much more deep and detailed lecture. This format simply didn't work for me. It leaves the reader wanting for more explanation, details, anecdotes or even more meaning to the original statement. The author simply filled the entire book with so much fluff that it became hard to draw out actual useful concepts from it.
However, having said that the book is not totally useless. There are a lot of good advices in the book. I just wish there was more elaboration on the concept. But For someone who is new to self help books, this might be a good starting point. It has some good ideas and takeaways such as:
1. Wealth comes from assets, not money.
2. Focus on creating leverage : labor and capital. Leverage is a tool you use to amplify your efforts.
3. you can be wealthy if you focus on developing specific knowledge that makes you unique
4. Value your time at an hourly rate and work to save that time
5. Play Long-Term Games With Long-Term People. invest in compound interest in most aspect of life including relationships
6. The freedom is to have control of your time, unlike a 9–5.
7. To build specific knowledge, read what you love until you love to read.