Follow Your Own Obsession - Akira the Don, Naval Ravikant

Akira

He’s got clout

To the extent that specific technology is taught it’s on the job

It’s through apprenticeships and that’s why the best careers are the

apprenticeship careers

Because those are things society still has not figured out how to train and

automate yet

The classic line here is that one of Warren Buffet went to Benjamin Graham when

he got out of school And Benjamin Graham was the author of the Intelligent

Investor

Is a modernized or created value investing as a discipline

And Warren Buffett went to Benjamin Graham and offered to work for him for free

And Graham said «Actually your overpriced.

Free is overpriced»

And Graham was absolutely right

When it comes to a very valuable apprenticeship like the type that Graham was

going to give Buffet Buffet should have been paying him a lot of money

And that right there tells you that those are skills worth knowing

Specific knowledge all potentially technical and creative

So, on the bleeding edge of technology

The bleeding edge of art

Or the bleeding edge of communication

Even today for example there are probably meme lords out there on the internet

Who can create incredible memes that will spread the idea to millions of people?

Akira

Follow your own obsession

Follow your own obsession

Follow your own obsession

Follow your own obsession

And somewhere in the back of your mind you can realize that, hey actually this

obsession I’ll keep an eye out for the commercial aspects of it

But I think if you go around try to build it a little too deliberately

If you become too goal-oriented on the money then you won’t pick the right thing

You won’t actually pick the thing that you love to do so you won’t go deep

enough into it But I think it’s important that what not start assembling things

to deliberately

Because you do want to pay the things where you are a natural

Everyone is a match for something

We’re all familiar with that phrase «a natural»

Oh, this person is a natural at meeting manner

This person is a natural socialite

This person is a natural programmer

This person is a natural programmer

This person is a natural leader

So, whatever you are a natural at you want to double down on that

And then there are probably multiple things you are natural at

Because personalities and humans are very complex

We want to be able to take the things that you are natural and combine them So

that you automatically just to share interest and enjoyment

End up top 25 or top 10 or top 5% at a number of things

Follow your own obsession.

Follow your own obsession

Whatever you’re a natural at you want to double down on that

Follow your own obsession Follow your own obsession

Whatever you are a natural at you want to double down on that

Follow your own obsession Follow your own obsession

Whatever you are a natural at you want to double down on that

Follow your own obsession Follow your own obsession

Whatever you are a natural at you want to double down on that