14 Patterns Behind the World’s Greatest Minds - David Senra - #1126

“for going back like five, six years ago for, uh, going back five, six years on my other podcast founders. Right. So I read biographies about him. I read his book, creative act. Have you read creative act? Yes. Okay. And so then I had the opportunity to meet him and then record an episode with him. And I thought, you know, I've read his biography over and over again. I've”

“Like you and I, we just talked about this. We just both read his book, Creative Act. And towards the end of that book, he has this thing called like the house on the mountain test. And here's the great thing about reading books about people and then getting to talk to them. Like you get, you get to go deeper and I want to tell you a story about James Dyson.”

“I read his second biography, which he wrote when he was in the 70s twice. I read, he wrote an encyclopedia when he was like 45 or 50 about he's obsessed with inventions. It's called A History of Great Inventions. It literally is like somebody printed out a Wikipedia page of like 200 inventions with hand-scrawled notes.”

“it's like 425 or something like that because it correlates with the Founders episodes I've done. If you only read one book, it'd be his first autobiography, which is called Against the Odds, an autobiography by James Dyson. Because it's not about, today, you fast forward, he's 78 years old. He owns 100% of one of the most successful private companies in the world.”

“And there's this great book called Michael Jordan, The Life. It's like 700 pages long. It's by this guy named Roland Lazably. And I've read that book twice. It fundamentally changed my life.”