TABLE OF CONTENTS

IMPORTANT NOTES ON THIS BOOK (DISCLAIMER)
FOREWORD
ERIC’S NOTE (ABOUT THIS BOOK)
TIMELINE OF NAVAL RAVIKANT
NOW, HERE IS NAVAL IN HIS OWN WORDS...

PART I: WEALTH
BUILDING WEALTH
Understand How Wealth Is Created
Find and Build Specific Knowledge
Play Long-Term Games with Long-Term People
Take on Accountability
Build or Buy Equity in a Business
Find a Position of Leverage
Get Paid for Your Judgment
Prioritize and Focus
Find Work That Feels Like Play
How to Get Lucky
Be Patient
BUILDING JUDGMENT
Judgment
How to Think Clearly
Shed Your Identity to See Reality
Learn the Skills of Decision-Making
Collect Mental Models
Learn to Love to Read

PART II: HAPPINESS
LEARNING HAPPINESS
Happiness Is Learned
Happiness Is a Choice
Happiness Requires Presence
Happiness Requires Peace
Every Desire Is a Chosen Unhappiness
Success Does Not Earn Happiness
Envy Is the Enemy of Happiness
Happiness Is Built by Habits
Find Happiness in Acceptance
SAVING YOURSELF
Choosing to Be Yourself
Choosing to Care for Yourself
Meditation + Mental Strength
Choosing to Build Yourself
Choosing to Grow Yourself
Choosing to Free Yourself
PHILOSOPHY
The Meanings of Life
Live by Your Values
Rational Buddhism
The Present Is All We Have

BONUS
NAVAL’S RECOMMENDED READING
Books
Other Recommendations
NAVAL’S WRITING
NEXT ON NAVAL
APPRECIATION
SOURCES
ABOUT THE AUTHOR