By Alvin Alexander. Last updated: August 24, 2014
Notes from “The peculiar habits of successful people”:
- Dilbert creator Scott Adams doesn’t use goals. He uses systems instead.
- When Charlie Munger was a lawyer, he saved the most productive hour of the day for himself.
- Nikola Tesla designed complicated inventions in his head before tinkering.
- Several great thinkers, from Isaac Newton to Albert Einstein to Adam Smith, were prolific wanderers and daydreamers.
- Someone once asked Warren Buffett the key to success. He pointed to a stack of books and said, “Read 500 pages like this every day. That’s how knowledge works. It builds up, like compound interest.”
- To think outside the box, inventor Steven Sample solved engineering problems by imagining them in the most absurd way possible.
