Naval Ravikant's Review of Meditations

“Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius was absolutely life changing for me because it’s the personal diary of the Emperor of Rome. Here’s a guy who was probably the most powerful human being on earth at the time that he lived, and he was writing his own diary to himself, not expecting it to be published. When you open this book, you realize he had all the same issues and all the same mental struggles and he was trying to be a better person. And so right there you figure out okay, success and power don’t improve your internal state; you still have to work on that. So that class of books is very influential.

“Best classic book philosophy, intro, someone starting out? I love Siddhartha, Herman Hesse’s book. For someone who’s more advanced, Jiddu Krishnamurti; I like his Total Freedom book. Osho’s Great Challenge, Michael Singer’s Untethered Soul. Marcus Aurelius, Meditations.

“Feynman, Darwin, J Krishnamurti, Hitchens, Ridley, Harari, Aurelius, Seneca, Lao Tzu, Newton, Munger, Borges, D. Adams, Hesse...

“@markhughes No, but recently read Tao, Gita, Aurelius, Krishnamurti, Hagakure. Evolution still has strong predictive power in my reality.

“@rneppalli Siddhartha, Herman Hesse. Mediations, Marcus Aurelius.

“@semil Have you read Meditations? One of my favorite books of all time.

“A collection of diary entries emphasizing tolerance and empathy.