How many copies of the Navalmanac have you sold now?

It's tough to know, but I think we're coming up on 2 million. How's that feel? I'm still, the word I like to use is gobsmacked. Like, I really thought I was doing fan service for a few thousand Naval nerds. And the fact that it's like 40 languages and millions of people. And we've given away a few million more, right? Like, I don't even really know. Oh, so that's how many were sold because it was available for free through the website.

Yeah. and millions of people. And we've given away a few million more, right? Like, I don't even really know. Oh, so that's how many were sold? Because it was available for free through the website. Yeah, which is another like 5 million plus, really hard to track. I think it's my most suggested book when people say, where should I start with personal development? Essentialism by Greg McEwen or the Navalmanac. That's incredible. And that's, I mean, I had no idea how many people were going to resonate with it and recommend it. And, you know, I think the highest compliment a gift, the highest compliment a book can receive is to be gifted. And so much of what we read comes from what's recommended. Like often you see an ad for a book and buy it?

Almost never. Yeah. The bars are too high. Yeah. And the subtitle of this new one is a guide to purpose and success about Elon. Why pick that? Why purpose specifically? It's emergent. I mean,

when I write these books, I start with millions and millions of words of source material, everything they've ever shared publicly. And I try to figure out, like, what is the essence of the person? What is the thing that is most special about them that anybody can learn from? And we all know that Elon is like massively productive. I feel like the question everybody's asking is kind of like, how the hell did this happen? Like, how does he get so much done? But what I didn't realize until way into the process is that

purpose was the other pillar. So I knew I wanted to know like how does he win, but I didn't know to the

extent that purpose was a big part of why he wins and that is actually he has some really

incredible answers for what do I do what's important how do I choose what's important yeah I think

everyone looks and just assumes tactics raw tactics yeah but if there's something bigger driving

that teal says about Elon he seems to know something something about risk that the rest of us do not.

What do you think that thing is? Yeah. I mean, I think Elon is risk on. Like, he takes risks that he

shouldn't take. He's inherently biased towards risk. But the number of times that that pays off,

I think, reveals and puts in Teal's context.

Like, Teal is a risk manager and Elon is a risk taker.

And when you combine that with purpose, the fact that Elon is on these missions, he's trying to accomplish something.

And he almost doesn't care how much risk it takes.

He'll just keep taking chances and keep taking chances until he breaks through. And he's got this

amazing quote, failure is irrelevant unless it's catastrophic. And I think that's a really good way to

sort of explain that attitude towards the risk of like, I just don't care how low my chances are.

I don't care how long the odds are. I'm just going

until I die because this is important enough to keep working on. And that explains why the purpose piece

is crucial because that's what would keep you pushing through. Yes. There's so many times that he has

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