Introduction

As I was exploring communities of my recently found platform - Hashnode, I came across the following and was intrigued to know more about Hashnode.

This led me to the About page of Hashnode , a part of which I've used as the banner of this blogpost.

Wait! This post is not going to give you a tour of Hashnode ,instead it is something different than that which you will find out very soon. In case you are a newbie at Hashnode and want to have a tour of Hashnode, you can follow this post by Miki Szeles - my-first-month-on-hashnode-a-retrospection-about-blogging-on-hashnode-developer-journaling-platform-by-miki-szeles which will take you through various features of Hashnode.

Naval Ravikant and His connection with Hashnode

Now, we're in the About page of Hashnode, and scrolling a little down, you'll find a sequence of investors of Hashnode. The first one in this sequence is Naval Ravikant who is also the founder of AngelList. On clicking on his picture, you will be directed to his Twitter handle which shows 1.6M followers. So, definitely, he's a famous personality.

Naval Ravikant is an Indo-American entrepreneur and investor who has invested over 200 companies, in their early stages, so far. He migrated to USA with his mother and brother when he was 9 years old. He has a degree in Computer Science and Economics from Dartmouth College.

He shares his experiences of life in different domains like self-discipline,confidence,wealth, investment,habits etc. in podcasts these days which have gained a lot of popularity. You can read more about him from wikipedia. You can also follow his official website which I am yet to start reading from.

The Almanack Of Naval Ravikant : Review

The moment I saw the list of investors of Hashnode , I was taken back to a recent memory of having finished reading the book - The Almanack Of Naval Ravikant which is the second book I picked up for this year under the #100DaysOfReading Challenge.

This book has been recommended repetitively by many. So I could not keep this book for a long time in my reading list. This is a book containing tweets and some interviews of Naval Ravikant,compiled by Eric Jorgenson.

Before sharing my takeaways from this book, the title of this book has always pumped up my interest . Being a grammar Nazi, I seldom keep away unfamiliar words for a long time without consulting google/dictionary . My Google search for word Almanack showed the following -

So, definitely this book encompasses all the teachings, learnings from the experiences Naval's life through various roles he played.

The book is divided into three parts -

• Part 1: Wealth

• Part 2:Happiness

• Part 3 : Naval's Recommendations

The book opens up with a note of disclaimer by Eric Jorgenson who has written about the structure of the book and different guidelines followed by a forward note by Tim Ferris.

From the section background , I learned about his life that, being a migrant to a foreign land, his life was never smooth. He faced discrimination on different grounds during his childhood but his life changed ever since he started to read books. The more he read books, the more he gathered knowledge about different things. He read as many books as he could which changed his perspective about life and made him very confident .

My Takeaways from this book

It's difficult to list down infinite lessons that I got from this book because each page has something to teach, but following are some lessons which resonated with me

1. Documenting the journey and sharing knowledge with others

"If you can't code, write books and blogs , record videos and podcasts."

2. Read as much as possible

"Study Microeconomics, game theory, psychology, persuasion , ethics, mathematics and computers. Reading is faster than listening .Doing is fastre than watching. He's advising to spend more in activities than reading and experimenting rather than just watching and listening."

3. Productize yourself

"Apply specific knowledge with leverage and eventually you'll get what you deserve."

4. Difference between money and wealth

"Money is how we transfer wealth. Money is social credit. Wealth is the thing you want. Wealth is assets that earn while you sleep."

5. Find and build specific knowledge

"Specific knowledge can not be taught but it can be learned."

6. Power of compounding

"All the returns in life, whether in wealth, relationships or knowledge, come from compound interest."

7.Finding a position of leverage

"Coding, writing books,, recording podcasts, tweeting, YouTubing - these kinds of things are permissionless. They're great equalizers of leverage."

8.Finding the work that feels like a play

"I would rather be a failed entrepreneur than someone who never tried because even a failed entrepreneur has the skillset to make it on their own."

9.Ways of getting lucky

"Become the best at what you do. Refine what you do until this is true. Opportunity will seek you out. Luck becomes your destiny."

10.Being Patient in the process

"It takes time - even once you have all of these pieces in place, there is an indeterminate amount of time you have to put in. If you're counting,you'll run out of patience before success actually arrives."

Conclusion

I thank everyone who recommended this book to me and it's great to have come across Naval Ravikant as the investor of Hashnode which encouraged me to put the review of this great book in this platform rather than reviewing it in my personal blog.

I have bookmarked so many pages and quotes to revisit in future because they are precious and I will definitely need them. So, I recommend this book to everyone who likes to read in the category of self-help.

Edit: daily.dev's Pick

I got very excited to get the following mail from the team of daily.dev stating that this article has been picked up on daily.dev's feed.