[padiyar83]

That's an interesting perspective. I have never found him arrogant. May be I have not watched the video clips or read tweets that you were exposed to. He does have a counter intuitive take on things, but don't think that come off as arrogance (to me). I have always appreciated the clarity of thinking he has on issues. The way he answers 5 "why"'s questions related to wealth and happiness amazes me. Have learnt so much from Naval's videos and tweets over the years.

[systemvoltage]

You're right - he has a great trove of knowledge, small tidbits of wisdom, some interesting and very abstract perspective of life, etc. He then combobulates it with how to get rich and other topics which are entirely different.

For example, he thinks that we should always be working for ourselves and building leverage. But ignores that most people actually don't want to run their own company and hire people. They're pretty content with their jobs and theyve got other priorities besides making money. He probably looks down on people like Chris McCandless (Into the Wild) who has a completely immaterialistic view of the world.

Great philosophers push their ideas without pulling down other's. Also humbleness comes from the ground up state of mind that our thoughts, no matter how convinced we're to ourselves, is not universally applicable and we should respect others who may not share the road to englightenment.

Furthermore, he looks down on things like:

- Audiobooks and speed reading. They're useless he claims because only the intellectuals actually read them and only then they can comprehend what's being said.

[DeonPenny]

I think he said what he says about building you own business because of how society has been shift to complain about their plights. People complain about education, college, and wealth gap in a way that almost assume that people are stealing from them.

If someone wants to work and these are things they bring up sure. But if they work a regular job yet, don't understand they have that option, but a job will never and should never give you a life that free of burden then he should actually explain to them how they should go about getting those things in a healthy society.