read what you love until you love to read.

Nivi brings together several of Ravikant’s comments on continuous learning. Ravikant supplies an omitted tweet and explains that enjoyable books establish the reading habit before more demanding material becomes appealing. He later recommends strengthening basic understanding rather than pretending to understand advanced books.

Begin with material that genuinely interests you so that reading becomes a durable habit and makes further self-education easier.

It is advice about how to start and sustain reading, not a rule to avoid difficult books forever. The discussion goes on to curiosity, foundational subjects and learning to understand unfamiliar material.

Change, Wisdom, Education

• Learn to sell, learn to build. If you can do both, you will be unstoppable.
• Earn with your mind, not your time.
• Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search thereof when he is grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul. Epicurus
• what we have to make when we have learned how, these we learn how to make by making. Aristotle
• When you learn, teach, when you get, give. Maya Angelou

Naval Ravikant, How to Get Rich (without getting lucky) (2018), “Read What You Love Until You Love to Read”, Naval’s first answer, paragraph introducing the omitted tweet. Checked at Quotogeny, https://quotogeny.com/q/read-what-you-love-until-you-love-to-read/ (28 October 2026).

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