What Naval Ravikant thinks about motivation
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4 dated positions, 2019 to 2025, in their own words. Our reading of what Naval Ravikant has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsNow, it may be the case that for your business, one of those is much better than others, but the most important thing is picking a business that is congruent with whichever one you like to do.
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Their wordsIf you’re going to be the top at it, you have to be almost psychopathic level at which you enjoy the thing.
- 10 days earlier
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Their wordsSo I think doing leads to the desire to learn and therefore to learning. And of course there’s the learning from the doing itself. Whereas I think if you’re purely learning for learning’s sake, it gets empty after a little while.
- 6 years earlier
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Our readingRead what you love until you love to read.
Their words“read what you love until you love to read.” It’s that simple.
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