Episode 41 – The Naval Ravikant Almanack with Eric Jorgenson
In this episode, Sean Murray talks with Eric Jorgenson about the latter’s new book, “The Almanack of Naval Ravikant.” This is a book Eric collaborated on with Naval and they are giving the book away free online. It is essentially a collection of the wisdom of Naval, which was pulled from a variety of sources like Twitter, blogs, podcasts, YouTube, and other ephemeral media, which Eric assembled and organized into a book that is easy to read and search.
Naval is a fascinating and very successful entrepreneur and investor who has a lot of interesting things to say about getting rich, building wealth, achieving happiness, developing your unique talents, and leveraging them.
In this Episode You’ll Learn
- The unconventional education and career of Naval Ravikant and how that contributed to his success as an investor
- How to get rich without getting luck
- The importance of developing specific knowledge – leveraging your unique gifts, experiences, interests, and disposition
- Why you can’t take someone else’s playbook and use it to execute your own success
- Why it’s important to find opportunities that leverage your unique edge
- Why the leverage of “zero marginal cost products” is so important
- Why money solves your money problems but that’s about it
- Why your health just may be the most important thing in your life
- The role of identity around judgment and decision making
Books & Resources
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant by Eric Jorgenson
Contact Eric Jorgenson
- Eric’s Twitter Account
- Eric’s Website
- The Almanack of Naval Website
Contact Sean Murray
- Sean’s Twitter Account
- Sean’s LinkedIn Account
- Email: Sean@TheInvestorsPodcast.com
- Website: RealTime Performance, Inc.
- Weekly Newsletter: RealTime Performance Newsletter