Naval Ravikant explains how to deal with stress and anxiety
Naval Ravikant
AngelList co-founder, investor, and writer
Ideas
Naval Ravikant: “Desire to me is a contract that you make with yourself to be unhappy”
Naval Ravikant: “It’s actually 10,000 iterations to mastery”
Naval Ravikant explains how to tell if someone has integrity
Naval Ravikant: “I don’t want to be anybody else”
Naval Ravikant on why the feeling of being in love beats being loved
Naval Ravikant: “The gut is the ultimate decision maker”
Naval Ravikant: “People decide frivolously which city to live in”
Naval Ravikant: “When you’re memorizing it’s an indication that you don’t understand”
Naval Ravikant on why good systems beat individual decisions
Naval Ravikant on why the number of failures doesn’t matter
Naval Ravikant explains why philosophical paradoxes seem paradoxical
Naval Ravikant explains the stag hunt game and high-trust societies
Naval Ravikant on why believing in luck hurts your agency
Naval Ravikant explains how to build self-esteem
Naval Ravikant on why life’s great questions have paradoxical answers
AngelList co-founder Naval Ravikant explains why hormones are released in pulses
Naval Ravikant: “Treat yourself like others should have treated you”
Naval Ravikant explains how to retire by doing what you love
Naval Ravikant: “The reason to win the game is so you can be done with it”
Naval Ravikant on what wasted time is
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Other philosophers
Ryan HolidayAuthor of The Daily Stoic and The Obstacle Is the Way
Karl PopperPhilosopher and author of The Open Society and Its Enemies
Thomas KuhnAuthor of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Douglas HofstadterCognitive scientist and author of Gödel, Escher, Bach
René GirardUnderstanding human desire
Noam ChomskyLinguist and co-author of Manufacturing Consent
Carl JungFounder of analytical psychology
Amartya SenEconomist and philosopher; author of Development as Freedom