38 Weeks to Get Rich
Welcome to the “38 Weeks to Get Rich”, where each week we’ll break down a section from Naval’s iconic tweetstorm and interviews on the topics of wealth, freedom, money, status, and happiness.
The full PDF is available here.
What follows is my summary & key takeaways to help you digest the 127 page document.
Week 16: Read What You Love Until You Love to Read
You should be able to pick up any book in the library and read it.
The foundation of learning is reading.
Reading is faster than listening, doing is faster than watching.
I don’t know a smart person who doesn’t read and read all the time. Everybody I know who reads a lot loves to read, and they love to read because they read books that they loved.
If you don’t currently love reading, start with a good fiction book. And after you’ve enjoyed that read anything else that sounds good (sci-fi, biography, historical fiction, political thriller, etc.). Read the things that interest you until you kind of understand them.
Business as a skill.
There is no skill called business. Avoid business magazines and business class, study microeconomics, game theory, psychology, persuasion, ethics, mathematics and computers.
The means of learning are abundant, the desire to learn is scarce.
There are more free resources available then ever before (library, youtube, twitter, etc.). The knowledge is abundant, the commitment to learn is what’s lacking. So cultivate a desire to learn.
And it’s not even “cultivating”; you’ve just got to not lose it. Children have a natural curiosity. A natural desire to learn. If you go to a young child, they’re pretty much always asking: “What’s this? What’s that? Why is this? Who’s that?” They’re always asking questions.
But one of the problems is that schools and our educational system, and even our way of raising children replaces curiosity with compliance.
And once you replace the curiosity with the compliance, you get an obedient factory worker, but you no longer get a creative thinker. And you need creativity, you need the ability to feed your own brain to learn whatever you want.
Stay tuned, next week we’ll review chapter 17.
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