The Wisdom Of Naval Ravikant | Eric Jorgenson | Modern Wisdom Podcast 225

Whoever is listening to this, you are more unique and valuable than you think you are. And everyone is kind of an incredible combination of their genetics and their experience and their perspectives and their beliefs. And everyone is unique and everyone has some sort of skill or insight that they can bring to other people if you can learn it and package it the right way, and just see what people respond to that, that you wanna bring to them. That's probably even before the kind of logistical stumbling blocks, is just the belief that there's something there for you to do and for you to add value. (airplane whooshing)

Eric, welcome to the show.

Thanks for having me. I've been excited about this ever since I listened to you and George Mack fucking around on here. I was like, "This is gonna be a good time. I'm gonna like this."

Yeah, it's, uh, it's all the boys club up in here, isn't it? So today is Naval Fest 2020. Welcome to Naval Fest 2020. This, there's big dick energy. We're just marinading in it today, and we're gonna see how much we can jerk off over Naval over the next 60 minutes.

A, a couple hundred pages, probably, worth, um, and then, and then edited material. So we got a lot to go on.

DVD extras, pay-per-view, OnlyFans, like, additional content.

D- DVD commentary, bonus scenes, director's cut. We got it all.

I love it. So why are you writing a book about Naval? Why did you... L- Like, what makes him worthy of a book? Who is he?

Uh, I've been following Naval for 10 years now, maybe. Uh, he was the first person I kind of got introduced to in the Valley. Not personally, but when I was, you know, just a wet-behind-the-eears kid from Michigan who had never left Michigan and was, like, trying to get into the startup world, somebody was like, "Go read all of Venture Hacks, follow Naval, do everything he says." Um, uh, him and Paul Graham were kind of like, those are the lighthouses of the Valley. Like, go listen and follow. Um, so that, I, I've been kind of following for a long time, and I learned a ton from him. And as he's kind of evolved over the years and started sharing more and more stuff, I've learned more and more, and I found myself recommending, you know, his podcast, his tweets, and for, to more and more people, for more and more reasons. And I realized, uh, kind of how hard it is for people outside of, like, the Twitterverse and the podcast world to kind of pick up that and run with it and learn from it. But the stuff that he talks about, um, is, can be so life-changing for so many people at, at many different stages, I think. And there's just so much value there that I really wanted, like, an easy on-ramp, and I wanted a, a tight package. And I'm watching these, like, high-value, you know, h- p- huge pieces of wisdom, um, just kind of slide into the, like, Twitter nothingness. Um, and it broke my heart, and I'm like, "I, I need to turn this into something more evergreen, something more permanent." And, you know, there's no better package than a book. Everybody knows what to do with a book. Everybody, um, you know, that's, it's easy to gift. It's easy to read through. Um, it's, people know kind of what to do with it, and it'll, hopefully it'll live on, you know, and it'll stay relevant for a really long time.