welcome back to the Naval podcast. I've pulled out some tweets from Naval's Twitter from the last year,

and we're just going to go through them. Here's actually my first question. You told me that you got

an early copy of the Elon book from Eric Jorgensen. Anything surprising in there? I'm only about 20%

of the way through. It's really good. It's

just Elon in his own words. And I think what's striking is just the sense of independence,

agency, and urgency that just runs throughout the whole thing. I don't think you necessarily

learn a step-by-step process by reading these things. You can't emulate his process. It's designed for

him. It's designed for SpaceX. He's designed for Tesla. It's contextual. But it's very inspiring just to

see how he doesn't let anything stand in his way, how maniacal he is about questioning everything,

and how he just emphasizes speed and iteration and no nonsense execution. And so that just

makes you want to get up and run and do the same thing with your company. And to me, that's what

the good books do. If I listen to a Steve Jobs speech, it makes me want to be better. If I read Elon

on how he executes, it makes me want to execute better. And then I'll figure out my own

way. The details don't necessarily map, but more importantly, I think just the inspiration is what drives.

Yeah, that's pretty interesting because I think people look to you as inspirational, yes,

obviously, but also laying out principles that people actually do follow.

I keep my principles high level and incomplete partially because it just sounds better and it's

easier to remember, but also just because it's more applicable. One of the problems I have with

the How to Get Rich content is people ask me highly specific questions on Twitter in 140 or 280 characters. And I just don't have enough context to respond. These things require context. That's why I liked air chat. That's why I liked Clubhouse. That's why I liked spoken format back when I used to do periscopes. When people would ask me a question, then I could ask a follow-up question back to them. They could ask me another question. We could dig through and try to get to the meat of what they were asking. And then I could say, well, given the information that I have, if I were in your shoes, I would do the following thing. But most of these situations are highly contextual. So it's hard to copy details from other people. It's the principles that apply. and so that is why I keep my stuff very high level. And in fact, I think Eric Jorgensen, the author, has done a good job of trying to break out the little quotable bits and put them in their own standalone sentences. So he's pulling tweets out of Elon's work. But I don't know. I just do my style. Elon does his. He inspires in his own way. Maybe I inspire someone in my own way. I get inspired by him. I get inspired by others. Inspiration all the way down. But when it comes to execution, you got to do it yourself. Life has lived in the arena. You only learn by doing. And if you're not doing, then all the learning you're picking up is too general and too abstract,

then it truly is hallmark aphorisms. You don't know what applies where and when.

And a lot of this kind of general principles and advice is not mathematics.

Sometimes you're using the word rich to mean one thing, other times you're using to mean another thing. Same with the word wealth, same with the word love or happiness.

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