Read A Lot - The Age of Alexandria

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🗃 Resources:: The Almanack of Naval Ravikant (2020)
2026-06-10

What are the most efficient ways to build new mental models? Read a lot — just read. Reading science, math, and philosophy one hour per day will likely put you at the upper echelon of human success within seven years.

We live in the age of Alexandria, when every book and every piece of knowledge ever written down is a fingertip away. The means of learning are abundant — it's the desire to learn that is scarce.

Most of the gains in life come from suffering in the short term so you can get paid in the long term. Your brain is overvaluing short-term happiness and trying to avoid short-term pain. Lean into the pain.