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For today’s edition I bring you a nugget from Naval Ravikant—sourced from his own Social Media app → Airchat.
👤 Authors
💡Nugget
Question from Ayden Lum (user of Airchat):
"I'm curious to what your opinion is on whether the journey is more worth it or if the destination is more valuable. Because when you work towards a goal, for example building a successful business... Is the work more valuable than the end result? Or [is it] the other way around?"
✦ Naval Ravikant:
I think of this as one of those chicken-versus-egg-style questions.
The answer is, of course, both.
Without the destination, you'd never start the journey. And if you don't get to the destination… Then what was the point in the first place? And you'll be disappointed.
That said, the journey is the reward because it's the real thing. It's what you actually live for 99.9% of the experience, and it's what transforms you and makes you.
So, I hate to say it, but the answer is both.
You have to undertake the journey, and you have to enjoy it and appreciate it, and suck the marrow out of it, live in it for every moment.
But if you don't get [to] the destination, of course you'll be disappointed. That's just human nature, and that's why you started in the first place.
Source:
Have you ever wondered how I learned to make these visuals? (such as the one ⬆️ above)
The credit fully goes to Janis Ozolins. He is a freelance Visual Creator, and some of his clients are Naval Ravikant, Steven Bartlett (host of The Diary Of A CEO), Darmesh Shah (founder of HubSpot) and Matt D’Avella (Netflix filmmaker). Janis also runs the Course & Community “Explain Ideas Visually”.
I wanted to learn how to make beautiful visuals to convey ideas, as 2/3 of the population are “visual learners”—they understand better with visuals, as opposed to pure text. So when I found out that Janis was running a course for exactly this purpose (the purpose of expressing ideas visually) I enrolled in the course right away! (back in July 2023).
In just one weekend, I absorbed all Janis’s years of experience:
I learned the principles of how to effectively explain ideas through visuals.
And I learned the technical know-how to produce the visuals on Figma (software program for designing). I didn’t have any prior experience in Design, but luckily it was not needed at all!
Would I have been able to learn it on my own for free?
For the principles and techniques of how to express ideas visually, definitely not! It would have taken me many iterations and a very long time—and still I might have misinterpret the feedback and learn the wrong things.
For the technical part (learning how to use Figma), absolutely! Although it would have taken me way, waaay longer (probably 3-4 weekends), as the information from searching on Google/YouTube is more generic.
This was my first visual after taking the course (which I published on Twitter):
This course has completely changed the way I create visuals, and I would definitely recommend it to anyone who wants to:
Communicate more clearly.
Become a Content Creator and grow an audience faster.
Potentially earn an extra income (as a freelance Visual Creator).
If you would like to check out the course, you can use my affiliate link (I earn a kickback at no extra cost to you 😜 ) → Link to the Course & Community “Explain Ideas Visually”
💥 Stuff I Loved
Always a pleasure to hear one of my heroes—Mohnish Pabrai.
In this occasion, he is talking at Harvard Business School (September 2023).
I absolutely loved this episode!
One thing that deeply resonated with me, is that just a seemingly small decision— so small that we might not even think about it for more than 10 seconds—can completely change the trajectory of our lives (or even give/take life itself)…
Morgan Housel tells the story of how he almost died in an avalanche at age 17. He was feeling tired so he decided to go rest, but his 2 friends kept skying and tragically succumbed to the avalanche moments later.
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