Principle: Biographies are a dead-man’s microphone
David Senra runs the Founders podcast.
He is obsessive about all founders, and clinically, compulsively obsessed with about 5.
Steve Jobs | Edwin Land | Enzo Ferrari | Charlie Munger | James Dyson
He has probably spent more time with these people than most of their closest relations ever did.
And he is becoming the average of them.
For the cost of about $100, you could get to know any one of these founders as well as he does.
Hang out with the greats.
Tactics
What are you trying to achieve?
Like, what are you ultimately trying to achieve?
Who’s done that before, or would if you gave it to them as a task?
That person probably has words written about them. Go find them. All of them.
Read that person, or about that person like it’s your job - it might be worth more.
Become obsessed with how a person makes decisions, orients his/her life and eats for breakfast.
Go chat with GPT about what your ultimate goal is
Ask him who from the annals of history would be a great authority on doing such a thing
Find the best biography on that person you can
Buy it
Read it
Buy another
Read it
Do that over and over, and you’ll change.
Habits/Experiments
Dedicate 30 minutes of every workday to reading (I know how unproductive that feels).
Use that time to not just read, but study the minds and systems of the greatest people to ever do it.
That decision about whether to run this ad or that one will feel easy to make.
Mike
Today’s inspiration: Founders Pocast