Naval Ravikant - The 5 BIGGEST Truths That Society CAN'T Tell You [w/ Peter Thiel]

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Naval Ravikant is the co-founder of AngelList and co-author of Venture Hacks. He has invested (early-stage) in companies like Uber, Twitter and FourSquare.
Peter Thiel is an entrepreneur and investor. Co-founder of Paypal and first outside investor in Facebook. In 2022, his estimated net worth was 7 Billion $.
Chamath Palihapitiya is the CEO of Social Capital (Venture Capital Fund). In 2007, he joined Facebook and led the User Growth Team. His net worth is estimated to be over 1 Billion $.
Mohnish Pabrai is a renowned investor and entrepreneur. He also founded the NGO "Dakshana" in India, and has a close friendship with Charlie Munger.
🧠 Quotes
"What Society wants for you is not what's always good for you."
- Naval Ravikant
"There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.”
- George Orwell
"The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects."
- Leonardo Da Vinci
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⏰ Time Codes
0:00 - Introduction
0:32 - 1) Money [w/ Naval Ravikant]
0:54 - 2) School [w/ Naval Ravikant]
2:04 - 3) Competition [w/ Peter Thiel]
5:04 - 4) Mistakes [w/ Chamath Palihapitiya]
8:25 - 5) The Cloning Model [w/ Mohnish Pabrai]
10:08 - Reflections, Quotes and Passages
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Personal observation: I was never allowed to make mistakes. I'd be yelled at. And so it's interesting why I didn't grow very much. I was always concerned with not making mistakes, and to get consumed by the fact that I'd made a mistake and feeling bad about it, when really, I could've taken it as a learning and growth experience. Parents: Let your children make mistakes. And try to program them properly by getting them to see mistakes from a growth perspective.

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1. Group long for consensus; individuals look for truth 2. Focus on what is actually valuable to pursue 3. Competition is a trap 4. Mistakes are the best proxy for learning and growing 5. Money gets rid of many source of unhappiness 6. Good artists copy and great artists steal. What to copy and steal?

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Some counter truths to these "individual truths": * More Money might not make you happy but lack of it will make your life a living hell * Lack of guilt is a recipe for breeding sociopaths * entrepreneurs love competition when it is about making hiring decisions but not when they are put to competition themselves against others * Sure, Schools do all those social work (baby sitting, keeping harmful people in control, indoctrination etc.) in addition to education, which helps create civil social citizens. but if all there is criminals/vagabonds in society where would these entrepreneurs create their companies and to whom these people sell their products? * Mistakes are OK as long as you have unlimited wealth and life. When you are not rich, there is very little margin of error. Every action you take is a life/death decision. (akin to a true survivalist situation in the wild) Lastly, what is society anyways, if not a collection of individuals/raw-brains which needs to be cultivated. Without a moral conduct, what are humans if not just a bunch of glorified apes? Where would these successful "individuals" live if there weren't a collection of individuals doing their work, feeding their needs and protecting them from harm from nature?!

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Mistakes happen a lot even in the hyper competitive dysfunctional corporate jobs as well so now everyone who’s reasonable is going to choose what pays off more for their hardships

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