Naval Ravikant on Happiness, Anxiety, and More

The Untethered Soul

Michael Singer

“the crazy roommate analogy which i originally picked up from michael singer by the way he has a good book called the untethered soul”— Naval Ravikant

The Way to Love

Anthony de Mello

“i'm gonna start with one book start with anthony demelo's way to love um or his book awareness they're both really good”— Naval Ravikant

Awareness

Anthony de Mello

“start with anthony demelo's way to love um or his book awareness they're both really good um but there's a ton of them”— Naval Ravikant

Think on These Things

Jiddu Krishnamurti

“if you're going to start somewhere i started with this book called think on these things there's also the book of life”— Naval Ravikant

Life Has No Goals No Purpose (audio clip)

Osho

“there's a great clip from him on soundcloud that says it's called life has no goals no purpose uh i listen to that that one a lot”— Naval Ravikant

Bhagavad Gita (Stephen Mitchell translation)

Stephen Mitchell

“the classics the bhagavad-gita get a good translation stephen miller i think has a good translation”— Naval Ravikant

Tao Te Ching (Stephen Mitchell translation)

Stephen Mitchell

“he also has a good translation of the daodaiching those are both really interesting again only if it appeals to you”— Naval Ravikant

Counsels and Maxims

Arthur Schopenhauer

“there's ancient wisdom in schopenhauer read councils and maxims you know these are smart people self-reflecting”— Naval Ravikant

Direct Truth

Kapil Gupta

“kappa gupta is an account in twitter he has a couple of great books direct truth is a fantastic book um written very recently”— Naval Ravikant

Finite and Infinite Games

James Carse

“finite and infinite games by james carso's an interesting read and i just want to close with”— Tim Ferriss

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!

Richard Feynman

“he's known colloquially for his book surely you're joking mr feynman and a couple of related ones”— Naval Ravikant

What Do You Care What Other People Think?

Richard Feynman

“a couple of related ones like so what do you care what other people think but he's also very well regarded in the field of physics”— Naval Ravikant

GPT-3

OpenAI (inferred)

“there's a new algorithm gpt3 which is the rage which is text completion so people are saying hey i can make up like really plausible sounding writing”— Naval Ravikant

Yoga Vasistha

“i basically read a lot of philosophers siddhartha vasis says yoga bhagavad gita the daodecheng you know i'm always going through one of these books”— Naval Ravikant

The Book of Life

Jiddu Krishnamurti

“i started with this book called think on these things there's also the book of life um he's very cerebral very intellectual”— Naval Ravikant

The Great Challenge

Osho

“anthony de mello the way to love uh osho's book the great challenge uh and i know people think osho is a fake guru”— Naval Ravikant

Bitcoin

“the best known cryptocurrency is bitcoin and bitcoin is trying to be the new gold or the new swiss bank account kind of all rolled into one”— Naval Ravikant

Ethereum

“go online and start reading up on bitcoin read up on ethereum read up on the privacy coins like zcash and monero”— Naval Ravikant

Zcash

“read up on the privacy coins like zcash and monero learn about the different high level stuff in the crypto space”— Naval Ravikant

Monero

“read up on the privacy coins like zcash and monero learn about the different high level stuff in the crypto space”— Naval Ravikant

USDC

Coinbase

“the best known ones are tether usdc which is coinbase's coin and uh make or die which is an algorithmically stable coin”— Naval Ravikant

Dai (Maker)

MakerDAO (inferred)

“usdc which is coinbase's coin and uh make or die which is an algorithmically stable coin but there's no lunch in life”— Naval Ravikant

Ledger (hardware wallet)

Ledger

“you can do it through a hardware wallet like a ledger or a trezor which are pretty well-known hardware wallets”— Naval Ravikant

Trezor (hardware wallet)

Trezor (inferred)

“a hardware wallet like a ledger or a trezor which are pretty well-known hardware wallets where you have a small specific device”— Naval Ravikant