How To Work Like a Lion and Take Most of The Week Off

Why Naval Ravikant suggests high octane work sprints

Kerry Needs
6 min readMar 5, 2021

“We’d like to view the world as linear, which is, I’m gonna put in eight hours of work, I’m gonna get back eight hours of output, right? Doesn’t work that way. Guy running the corner grocery store is working just as hard or harder than you and me. How much output is he getting?…Outputs are non-linear based on the quality of the work that you put in. The right way to work is like a lion.” — Naval Ravikant

Minimum effort, maximum reward. That’s the holy grail, isn’t it? The gold we are all searching for as entrepreneurs.

As someone who is interested in the idea of energy conservation, I definitely don’t want to be slogging my guts out for 9 hours a day when I can get better results and make just as much money in 3 hours. I bet you do too.

I admit it — I’m lazy. I love writing, and I love working, but I don’t want to do it all the time. I live up to my star sign, the Leonine Lion of the zodiac.

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Kerry Needs
Kerry Needs

Written by Kerry Needs

Freelance Copywriter | Experiments in #lifestyledesign, #productivity and #flow. Occasional #poet. Get in touch: www.kerryneeds.com

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