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Arm Yourself With Specific Knowledge

Naval

Naval Ravikant

Business, Technology

4.82.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2019

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Arm yourself with specific knowledge. It can't be trained but it can be found by pursuing your genuine curiosity.

Arm yourself with specific knowledge 0:00

Specific knowledge can't be trained 1:47

Specific knowledge is found by pursuing your curiosity 2:34

Building specific knowledge will feel like play to you 3:53

Transcript: http://nav.al/specific-knowledge

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0:00.0

You want to talk a little bit about the skills that you need in particular specific knowledge,

0:06.5

accountability, leverage, and judgment.

0:10.1

So the first tweet in this area is, arm yourself with specific knowledge, accountability,

0:17.4

and leverage, and all throw in judgment as well.

0:20.5

I don't think you covered that in that particular tweet.

0:23.2

If you want to make money, you have to get paid at scale.

0:27.9

And why you, that's accountability at scale, that's leverage, and just you getting paid

0:34.6

as opposed to somebody else getting paid, that's specific knowledge.

0:38.5

So specific knowledge is probably the hardest thing to get across in this whole tweet storm.

0:42.9

And it's probably the thing that people get the most confused about.

0:46.4

The thing is that we have this idea that everything can be taught, everything can be taught

0:51.9

in school.

0:52.9

And it's not true that everything can be taught.

0:54.6

In fact, the most interesting things cannot be taught.

0:57.2

But everything can be learned.

0:58.9

And very often that learning either comes from some innate characteristics in your DNA,

1:04.7

or it could be through your childhood where you learn soft skills, which are very, very

1:08.3

hard to teach later on in life.

1:10.5

Or it's something that is brand new.

1:13.6

So nobody else knows how to do it either.

1:16.2

Or it's true on the job training because you're pattern matching into highly complex environments.

1:20.6

It's basically building judgment in a specific domain, classic examples, investing, but it

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