Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends on It

A talk Kamal Ravikant gave in December 2011 to CEOs, politicians, scientists and Pentagon officials, about the secret of life he says he worked out the summer before, is the basis of the book. The truth he describes is self-love practiced with the urgency of someone hanging from a cliff edge by the fingertips, as if survival depended on it. Ravikant presents the text as a set of thoughts drawn from his own experience: what worked, what did not, and where he still falls short every day. He believes the practice saved him, and he says that once it is under way it asks for commitment more than effort.

James Altucher endorsed it as one of the most important books he had read that year.