The Angel Philosopher Naval Ravikant on Reading, Making Decisions, Habits, and the Purpose of Life

Naval Ravikant is the CEO and co-founder of AngelList.

In this raw and honest conversation, we discuss how he developed his legendary reading habits, how he makes decisions, what popular habits he thinks are garbage, what it takes to be a great founder, the biggest mistakes, the purpose of life, and so much more.

Topics
00:00 - Intro
12:42 - Books / Media Consumption
17:40 - Habits
28:56 - Happiness
39:07 - Values
45:34 - Biggest Mistakes
1:05:06 - The Education System
01:23:18 - Making Decisions
01:44:09 - What it takes to be a great founder
01:53:51 - Common mistakes
01:55:55 - The purpose of life

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[MosesRabuka]

“Your goal in life is to find out the people who need you the most, the business that needs you the most, the project and Art that needs you the most because there’s something out there just for YOU. You never gonna be good at being somebody else”

[seeker]

Naval's ability to say more in less, always amazes me.

[visavou]

i discovered this 4 am in the morning. i feel good for not sleeping.

[nbme-answers]

2:18

Edit: Shane, we appreciate you, but life is short!
Thank you for the awesome interviews. Thank you for letting your subjects *speak*.

[bipinkr]

Don't judge any contents on the basis of no. of views and likes on Youtube. This is the Gold. Only access by limited and rare person. Come again.

[DushyantJoshiNewZealand]

54:10 - "only the individual transcends" 1:34:47 "the closer you wanna get to me, the better your values have to be"

[VOLUTION]

Naval is one of the greatest thinkers alive right now

[saikrishnachavali]

This is an episode Im re-listening to for third time in under a year. Similar to books I re-read. Wrote down the nuggets and getting more each year.

[thesuccesscommunity]

Definitely one of the most interesting minds out there.
Thank you Shane for the great interview...

[benbansal]

Amazing! i have been looking for a mentor as of late, Naval is it! Found him on Joe Rogan initially and i resonate with his philosophy. self education is key and he said he reads less than 2 hrs a day which is greater than a lot....when i read books that improve my life and organic with my passion, my life only improves

[susmitadey]

He is one of kind genius I admire..I could listen to him over and over again ... thank you the post ..

[louis]

This interview changed my life forever

[garlandpepper]

This is a wonderful show. I am so glad this is in the universe. Thank you Naval For your wisdom and Shane for your excellent questions.

[matthiaskristjansson]

This is probably the best thing on the internet. Thank you.

[sathishtadaka]

I keep relistening to this over and over again there's so much information packed in this

[brodygalletti]

This one of the greatest interviews of all time with Naval. I took so much away from this!

[mandeepkhadka]

How come this doesn't even have 1M views? But in a way glad that this gem 💎 has been accessed by only a limited number of people.

[ladok]

This is the deepest interview with Naval so far

[prayaanshmehta]

-Substitution effect
-Duality-polarity of positive thoughts
-Happiness = absence of desire

[Nagaraj-jkke]

Listening to naval's podcast on first day of my post-graduation class.