Philosophy Of Life By Naval Ravikant

Syed Noorulla
ILLUMINATION
Published in
3 min readJun 30, 2024

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Credits: Christopher Michel

“All the great questions are paradoxes”

Naval Ravikant is a renowned entrepreneur and investor from America. He played pivotal roles as the co-founder, chairman, and previous CEO of AngelList. His investment portfolio includes early-stage investments in more than 200 companies. Naval’s philosophy usually roams around Health, Wealth, and Happiness. His insights often blend practical wisdom with philosophical depth, making them applicable to a wide audience seeking to live a more fulfilling and meaningful life.

When we think about what is the meaning of life there is a lot of stuff that gets in our brains and we cannot decide which one is the right thing to do. Naval describes the meaning of life as a “Stupid Question” and there’s a reason why he said that. In a sense it is right and the basic answer to that question which we often get is like, praise God, get a job, get married, and bla bla bla. But it is all something that society has forced us to do. Naval tries to explain it in parts, where he first talks about God. If God is the meaning of life then which God? Christianity? Islam? Judaism? Hinduism? and many more and if you choose to follow one then you should also show why the other is false and there is no one particular concrete answer to that question. According to the Naval, it’s a Why question, if not this then why that? if this, then why not

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