Life Is Lived in the Arena - Naval  ## Metadata - Author: **Naval** - Full Title: Life Is Lived in the Arena - Category: #podcasts - URL: https://share.snipd.com/episode/8e0ef9c9-a23d-4139-9016-7fe5f51bc640 ## Highlights - **Experiential Learning** - General principles and advice are not mathematics; applying them requires understanding the context. - Avoid creating a playbook from generalized advice, instead, go do something to learn effectively. Transcript: Naval Ravikant Then it truly is hallmark aphorisms. You don't know what applies where and when. And a lot of this kind of general principles and advice is not mathematics. Sometimes you're using the word rich to mean one thing. Other times you're using it to mean another thing. Same with the word wealth. Same with the word love or happiness. These are overloaded terms. So this is not mathematics. These are not precise definitions. You can't form a playbook out of them that ([Time 0:00:07](https://share.snipd.com/snip/cb783555-98e4-4137-ac53-8786c8ba7a0f)) - **Experiential Learning** - Engage in doing something, then use general principles as heuristics. This allows you to understand the context and refine your judgment. - Ultimately, refined judgment becomes taste or intuition. Transcript: Naval Ravikant Instead, you have to understand what context to apply them in. So the right way to learn is to actually go do something. And then when you're doing it, and then you figure something out about how it should be done, then you can go and look at something I tweeted or something you read in Deutsch or something You read in Schopenhauer or something you saw online and say, oh, that's what that guy meant. That's the general principle he's talking about. And I know to apply it in situations like this, not mechanically, not 100% of the time, but as a helpful heuristic for when I encounter this situation again. You start with reasoning, and then you build up your judgment. ([Time 0:00:33](https://share.snipd.com/snip/b76e4a56-927b-4b13-a613-67d6af61261d))