A Goodreads review of The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness. From a fanboy.

first review

Simply enlightening.

[Edited a year later]

Glad I visited the review section for the first time, a year and some change later. This has been my most relistened to book for me, ever. I have taken most of the quotes here as maxims. The humor of it all is that I have been into some other 19th century author of late. Fortunate for me, he would advise me not to seem the better as I learn from Naval and anyone else who maybe rightfully thinks of themselves as accomplished. I learnt that I am not all that enlighten and shouldn’t be deceived nor shield myself from learning from others even if they themselves seem to be deceived. [Oh wow, there flashes Jordan Peterson learnings before my mind as I proofread this review before pressing the publish button. -‘ have some humility, this is it. This is the world. It is made up of ‘simple’ people. This is all we have and this is as far as we have gotten. Respect the progress we have made. You are free to make things better.’ If you think of yourself high and might, I would add and comma and a genius at the end of the previous sentence and a exclamation mark to drive the emotion home :). Anyway, have some humility and be respectful]

Back to the review. I was worried of being blindsided. Fortunately, there are skeptics here. Thank you for the bad reviews. They brought a bit of light to the fog.

At the end of the day here is my new stance. This book reads like Tribe of Mentors actually. By just one mentor on different aspects of life, somewhat all encompassing aspects.

I think it’s good still. I just feel freer from thinking that this is ultimate truth and that it details life’s blueprint. I am Christian so I guess I am reminded of my Lord and savior and His resoluteness.

Read this, learn from it but continue on the search for wisdom. This book is not the the answer to all life’s problems. Especially to all of you Christians here, haha.

I am going to leave this review here. It’s not especially of the book but it’s of something that people who would read this book could benefit from reading. I hope.

For the sake of transparent accountability. The aforementioned philosopher is James Allen. I wonder how misguided I am to be reading/listening all over the shore. Can’t wait to be called out in the comment section.

Hope this is helpful to someone. I have just learnt something because I decided to read the reviews.

Here you go.