Naval Ravikant on Happiness Hacks and the 5 Chimps Theory | The Tim Ferriss Show (Podcast)

When a guest is nominated for “Podcast of the Year,” that’s a good reason to bring them back for more. That’s why Naval Ravikant (@naval) is here for round two, and this time, he’s answering your most-requested questions. For those of you who missed his first episode, Naval is the CEO and a co-founder of AngelList. He has invested in more than 100 companies, including many “unicorn” mega-successes. He is the person I call most for start-up advice.
Most important, he has developed a diverse set of skills and rules-of-thumb that can applied nearly everywhere . Even if you have no interest in startups or investing, this is well worth your time.
Connect with Naval Ravikant:
Like Naval Ravikant on Facebook: / naval.ravikan
Follow Naval Ravikant on Twitter: / naval
Naval Ravikant on Happiness Hacks and the 5 Chimps Theory
Show Notes: tim.blog/2016/01/30/naval-rav...
Start [00:00]
Thoughts on the AI industry [6:41]
The future of work [9:26]
An overview of how Naval would change the education system [14:51]
How Naval Ravikant manages conflict and anger [22:05]
What insight about life seems obvious to you but not to others [23:47]
The books on Naval Ravikant’s Kindle [29:46]
What do you do on a regular basis to make your life more efficient? [38:43]
More book recommendations [40:55]
Money making questions and startup success [43:08]
Advice for ambitious 18-year-olds who want to be successful in startups and investing [46:34]
Advice for a talented software engineer [48:52]
Advice for engineers seeking US visas [51:02]
How do you protect your own time while not offending people or damaging relationships [51:45]
The best lesson learned from investing [57:25]
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6:30 where it begins.

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Remarkably restrained of Tim this time.

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Thanks man)

[@BrentNally]

I've watched every single Naval Ravikant video I can find on KZbin and read every single Naval Ravikant tweet. I'm a much more intelligent and happy person because of this.

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Brent Nally same here bro. 😊

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g00d man

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which video is your favorite?

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22:35 "Probably the single best piece of advice I can give, other than being mindful and just aware, when you are engaging in conflict is to not associate with high conflict people… We all know people in our lives we just tend to get a little more angry little more judgmental or they're always in a fight with somebody else. If you see someone who's always fighting with somebody else, they're eventually going to fight with you. So I have just slowly cut those people out of my life. Not in an overt explicit way but just by choosing to hang out with them less and less. There are plenty of smart successful kind and happy people in the world and you just have to make space for them in your life by letting the people who still have lessons to learn drift off and go learn their lessons. It's not your job to educate them. Sometimes very unhappy people sort of have this air about them like a drowning person where they’re trashing and making a big ruckus but if you grab them and try to save them - unless you are an extremely happy person yourself - you’re going to drown too. So I would say the first rule of handling conflict is don't hang around people who are constantly engaging in conflict."

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Cannot believe there’s ONLY 40k views. 🤯 this should be easily on the millions!!!

[@mvlla8624]

he is my most favorite guest. very inspirational and interesting. man, since i found your podcasts, i´m learning more and more new things; the different angles and perspectives on life are the key to improve. also read your books (4hww and 4hb) and currently being on your slow carb diet plan. thank you very much for your work! your content is the most influencing in my life for some month now.

[@harshadm824]

Listening to Naval is a joy!

[@HelderP1337]

This was fascinating. A LOT of these points can be traced back to stoicism, and I mean a LOT of them, if not all. Marcus Aurelius was writing similar things 2k years ago.

[@madameclark3453]

The Prophet! My father gifted this book to me when I was young child and I read several times. I have been thinking about reading that again.

[@shadfurman]

So much wisdom here!

[@ExpandOurAwareness]

Oh yeah Naval, this was so useful and not random at all. Thank You!

[@bhavnapatel6082]

I salute to u sir,, hw can anyone be so freakin intelligent and spiritual at the same time...i have learnt so much from u....Mr. naval ravikanth, u simply r d best,

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My favorite podcast guest. Thank you for sharing this and thank you for recommending the book Love yourself like Life depends on it. I learned lot from it. The Black Swann, The Tao Te Chin and The Evolution of everything.

[@mr.BobbySingh]

amazing insight on living a purposeful life. It's shame this interview only got less than 5k views. Truly life changing podcast.

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P0

[@chuckacevedo]

this is incredibly helpful. Thank you! you!!!

[@RahulSrivastav844]

This video taught me more than my entire school career did :)

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Wow on point about working in boom and bust. Shift towards gig work.

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58:00 have systems and patterns. Overwhelm the randomness.

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Brilliant ideas

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Golden information

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34:18 onwards. Habits

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Great great great...

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6:33 start

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14:52 basic school curriculum for kids and adults

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This was a dump of amazing

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Tim ferriss , its okay to spend a little bit more in audio quality

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@53:00

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38:00

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what about Constructuon skills? Blueprints are design intent, the means and method are left to the laborer. I can’t see A.I. Doing this type of work in my lifetime.

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The architecture and design of the building are human creative endeavour. The building services like heating, water supply and ventilation are determined by regulations and can be designed by an automated system if the constraints are put in correctly, like the dimensions of the rooms, the occupancy limits. More and more buildings are being pre-fabricated off site and then built on site like building with bespoke lego bricks. There are also machines for automated laying of bricks and 3D printing using concrete. I have worked as an engineer in construction and I follow technology. These are some of the developments that I have seen.

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🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

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I love all the nuggets of wisdom but naval could definitely get away with reading fewer books at once.

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48:00 bm

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I love Naval but this video sounds like his beard hair is scratching the microphone..

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He's playing an African shaker instrument

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Naval thinks that Jed Mckenna is weird. I think Jed Mckenna's books are the most important books I ever read.

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Whereever buddhism practiced suffering came. All the countries where majority people practicing buddism, people are suffering. Be smart enough to learn from history.

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How about Japan? And Thailand is a lovely country to live in.

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Such a long Intro fck.

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