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The Joe Rogan Experience

#1309 - Naval Ravikant

The Joe Rogan Experience

Joe Rogan

Comedy

4.6228.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2019

⏱️ 132 minutes

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Naval Ravikant is an entrepreneur and angel investor, a co-author of Venture Hacks, and a co-maintainer of AngelList. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Two, one, boom. All right, we're live. Thank you very much for doing this man. I really appreciate it. I've been absorbing your information and listening to you talk for quite a while now, so it's great to actually meet you.

0:12.3

Thanks for having me.

0:13.2

My pleasure, my pleasure.

0:14.4

You are one of the rare guys that is, you're a big investor, you are,

0:21.6

you're deep in the tech world but yet you seem to have a very balanced perspective in terms of how to live life as opposed to not just be entirely focused on success and financial success and tech investing, but rather

0:40.4

how to live your life in a happy way. That's an odd balance.

0:45.0

Yeah, you know, I think the reason why people like hearing me is because like if you go to a circus and you see a bear, right?

0:54.0

That's kind of interesting, but not that much.

0:56.0

If you see a unicycle, that's interesting, but you see a bear on a unicycle,

0:59.2

that's really interesting, right?

1:01.0

So when you combine things, you're not supposed to combine

1:03.5

right I get interested it's like Bruce Lee right striking thoughts philosophy plus

1:07.6

martial arts and I think it's because at some level all humans are broad we're all multivariate but we get

1:15.2

summarized in pithy ways in our lives and at some deep level we know that's not true

1:20.3

right every human basically is capable of every experience and every thought. You know,

1:25.5

you're UFC, comedian, commentator, podcaster, but you're also more than that. You're also father,

1:31.6

lover, you know, thinker, etc. So I like the model of life that the

1:37.2

ancients had, the Greeks, the Romans, right, where you would start out and

1:41.2

when you're young you're just like going to school then you're going to

1:44.7

war then you're running a business then you're supposed to serve in the Senate or the

1:49.0

government then you become a philosopher this sort of this arc life, where you try your hand at everything.

1:56.0

And as one of my friends says, specialization is for insects.

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