The Almanack Of Naval Ravikant

Perhaps this was the product of having read many similar books leading up to this one, but I did not feel like much of this was profound or different. I appreciate these books and I can understand the impact that this particular book could have on an individual, I just do not think I personally gained much. I will concede that the book applied wholistic approaches to business that I may not have considered before, however I thought much was rather obvious.

Nice and short, doesn't go much in depth but covers a range of topics like money, relationships, health, philosophy, leadership, happiness. I listened to an audiobook and I'll probably reread the book at some point because it's quite a lot of information packed into a few hours of listening and topics change rather quickly. There is a "further reading" chapter to continue your research. I enjoyed the book overall and felt inspired to begin learning about a couple other things that caught my attention.

Very thought provoking book and has provided some guidances (not answers) to some of the bigger questions in life for me. Much of this content resonated with me and I'm enjoying exploring the recommended reading section.

call me pretentious for giving this 5 stars, i don't care! endless highlighting, note-taking, pondering. this is a book i will reference and ruminate on for years to come. only con were some of the spiritual dogma that felt trivial.

First I want to clarify that the book is not written by Naval himself. It's a collection of his public writings and sayings assembled by Eric Jorgenson.

Overall opinion - The book is kinda chaotic and has some contradicting statements. I find this pretty annoying combined with a lack of explanation in many other places. Despite some views that I don't share I find his work pretty engaging and easy to read.

Before reading, I had never listened to Naval's podcast or read anything about his philosophy. I was greatly surprised as it introduced some new mental models. I find the philosophy chapters more valuable than the wealth part. Within these chapters, he describes Buddhist concepts and his personal beliefs on the topics of existence, happiness, and the meaning of life (the usual suspects).

This isn't an especially well -wrotten book (the author basically directly quotes Naval for 100% of it's length, sorting the quotes thematically). The content is pretty good though. Going in, I had no idea who this Naval was, but it's pretty clear that he knows some things about business and happiness (even if I don't agree with absolutely everything, I find his perspective fascinating).

Very wise character, but nothing especially stuck with me from this book.

Not bad, but not great either. It's just a lot of opinions. I admire them, and i bought it simply because i wanted to learn about his perspective.
For me, my biggest win for myself was to better understand my relationship with money and wealth. I never really understood wealth creation. I always associated more money with evil and a negative emotion. Mostly because of how my family and bollywood movies viewed it. But my view has swung to the other side now, and it hopefully will only grow in that direction. If we can use our skills to solve problems for people, there is nothing wrong in letting society reward you with the agreed currency of the world. Ofcourse, it needs to be ethical and non exploitative.
More to learn in this journey though. To any of you reading this, if you can understand what I'm trying to explore, please do suggest more reading material.

One of the most wisdom-filled books I've ever read. Probably in my top 10 books of all time. Really incredible content to digest and reflect upon. I will absolutely revisit this one down the road.

Absolutely recommended

Although I agree with the notion that it reads as a quotes book, it has been enlightening to follow along with Naval's philosophy and modi operandi. Will revisit the book at a later time to absorb even more from it as it is chockful with goodies.

Not sure if its because I already have internalized most of these but I didn't find much here. There's a lot of quality advice in general but I kept getting the feeling that here's some guy who's done pretty well in life but the author is trying to abstract his insights and leanings to everyone in the whole world. The book also feels like a series of tweets or blogs posts most of the time. Nothing wrong with that but the author didn't do much to mold the content into a book format. Overall great stuff and will keep coming back to this book for quotes but not the most cohesive book.

The book does have value, but it is tiresome to read. There is a lot of repetition (maybe to drive and emphasize the point) which makes it very hard to focus on a paragraph. Eventually, I just glided through a quarter of the book hoping for an in-depth insight which never really came.

There is value to the insights here but there was very little new or ground-breaking for me. I would have loved a deeper insight or elaboration but I was only met with repetition of the points.

I loved this book! I had only heard of Naval Ravikant in passing before reading this book, I hadn't followed him in any manner via twitter, blog, podcast or otherwise. I found many useful tidbits in here both for life and for business. This is one of those books that gets you motivated to create (a business) and to live your life better.

It was a quick read, and I probably highlighted 30% of it to refer to later. Great job by the author to both (1) gather the information from all the sources and (2) pare it down into a manageable and coherent format! Definitely a book I will be revisiting in the future.