Naval Ravikant: 6 Ways to Gain Leverage on Your Goals, Select Intelligent Desires, and Get Rich

Being rich and happy are learnable skills. If there’s a skill you lack, you can learn it; if there’s a big scary problem looming over you, you can overcome it; if you want more out of life, you can have it.

But, there are traps along the way.

These traps can take the form of pessimism and self-defeating behaviors; or the creeping expansion of desire; bad advice from well-meaning people; and a lot more that The Almanack of Naval Ravikant can help you avoid.

Naval is the founder of AngelList, a website that allows startups to raise money from angel investors free of charge, and he’s had over 70 successful exits himself, after investing in companies like Uber and Twitter before almost anyone else.

He’s become somewhat of an entrepreneurship/start-up culture icon, and this book is a collection of his greatest wisdom distilled from a decade of podcast appearances and thousands of tweets.

Seriously…we’re living today through the internet gold rush, where there are just so many opportunities out there to make money and to build lasting wealth, but the reckless pursuit of that wealth and opportunity can only lead to pain.