The Hardest Thing Is Knowing What You Want
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🗃 Resources:: The Almanack of Naval Ravikant (2020)
2026-06-10
The hardest thing is not doing what you want — it's knowing what you want.
Related to the skill of reading are the skills of mathematics and persuasion. Both skills help you to navigate through the real world. Mathematics is a foundational language of nature. You don't have to know a lot of math. You just have to know basic statistics, arithmetic, etc. You should know statistics and probability forwards and backwards and inside out.