naval
ravikant

naval’s day.

• On waking
  No alarm clock

  “Yes, I’m alarm clockless.” He sets one only as a backup, and late: “I set the alarm clock from 11:00 a.m. in case I was stricken with a flu that day.”

  sleep
• ~7:30 (2015)
  Wakes to daylight under a skylight

  “I sleep underneath a skylight, which is deliberate.” He called himself a night owl: “I get up around 7:30.”

  sleeplight
• First thing (2017)
  The Happy Body workout, every day

  jerzy Gregorek’s program: “you have to do it seven days a week and it’s the first thing that I do… I can do it at home with just my weights next to the bed.” In 2015 he described a 20-minute mix of “yoga, stretching, breathing, dumbbells” with a 20-pound pair.

  fitness
• After the workout (2015)
  Decaf coffee or tea

  “Then I’ll leisurely either have a decaf coffee or tea and then I’ll head of to work.” He said he had dropped caffeine: “The most recent was I dropped caffeine.”

  energy
• First 4 hours
  Hard problems first

  “the first 4 hours are when I have the most energy and that’s when I want to solve all the hard problems.”

  focusenergy

• Next 4 hours
  Works out every day

  “I work out every day because I think it gives me more energy and I’ve gotten into a good habit with it.” The middle block of his day is for “more outdoorsy activities or I want to work out or maybe I can, you know, have some meetings.”

  fitnessenergy

• All day
  No calendar, no schedule

  “I deleted my calendar and I don’t keep a schedule.” He works through text messages and has an email autoresponder that says he doesn’t check email.

  focus
• Walking around (2020)
  Meditation as watching his thoughts

  “the number one thing that has been very, very important for me is meditation… I don’t mean sitting there and watching your breath or chanting a mantra. I mean, self-examination.” Where? “it’s really just walking around.”

  focus
• Ongoing (2017)
  Mostly off alcohol

  “I cut down heavily on drinking. It’s not totally eliminated, but it’s mostly gone. I dropped caffeine.”

  recovery

• Last 4 hours
  Wind down with the kids

  “the last 4 hours I kind of want to wind down. I want to hang out with the kids and I want to play games or read a book or something like that.”

  sleep

• Before bed (2020)
  Philosophy before sleep

  “I just read a lot of philosophy, especially at night time before I go to bed.” He picks out “one or two things” and reflects on them before he sleeps.

  sleepfocus
• 4–8 hours
  Sleep comes and goes

  “Some nights I’ll sleep 8 hours. Some nights I’ll sleep 4 hours. But it’s literally just random.” He says his sleep tracker is “always telling me I failed at sleeping again.”

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