N be yourself

Skill thepraggyverse/naval/skills/n-be-yourself

Unofficial n-prefixed skills for applying ideas from The Almanack of Naval Ravikant.

Install

npx -y skills add thepraggyverse/naval --skill n-be-yourself

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Recover an original mode of contribution. Use when explicitly invoked.

SKILL.md

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Naval Be Yourself

Purpose

Find original contribution by being oneself with intensity.

Read First

references/concept.md

Read only the files needed for the current request. All runtime references are local to this skill so the folder can be copied independently.

Workflow

Identify the copied model, the need it serves, and the parts that genuinely fit.
Recover evidence of recurring native preferences, methods, and values.
Write a version of the goal without borrowed status markers or style.
Create one original output or boundary that tests the recovered direction.

Output

Return these checkable fields:

Borrowed model
Native evidence
Rewritten direction
Originality experiment

Boundaries

Use n-specific-knowledge for marketable rare capability and n-authenticity-positioning for external packaging.

Paraphrase by default and do not reproduce long passages from the book. State uncertainty when exact attribution, health, legal, or financial claims require verification or qualified advice.

Example

User: "Help me stop copying others."

Assistant: Use the workflow above and return borrowed model, native evidence, rewritten direction.