About This Book

🔍 Smart people don't always succeed, creativity and imagination are key to innovation. 🔬 Love for arts and sciences helps identify patterns in nature. 🌌 "Reality-distortion field" is a trait of innovative people like Steve Jobs. 🤔 Retaining a childlike sense of wonder is important for success. 📚 Jeff Bezos was a focused and adventurous reader from a young age.

Top Highlights

• That trifecta—humanities, technology, business—is what has made him one of our era’s most successful and influential innovators. Like Steve Jobs, Bezos has transformed multiple industries. Amazon, the world’s largest online retailer, has changed how we shop and what we expect of shipping and deliveries. More than half of US households are members o...
• 4. Focus on the big decisions. “As a senior executive, what do you really get paid to do?” he asks. “You get paid to make a small number of high-quality decisions. Your job is not to make thousands of decisions every day.” He divides the decisions that have to be made into those that can be walked back and those that are irrevocable. The latter req...
• Smart people are a dime a dozen and often don’t amount to much. What counts is being creative and imaginative. That’s what makes someone a true innovator. And that’s why my answer to the question is Jeff Bezos.
• “I have no special talent,” Einstein once said. “I am only passionately curious.” That’s not fully true (he certainly did have special talent), but he was right when he said, “Curiosity is more important than knowledge.” A second key trait is to love and to connect the arts and sciences. Whenever Steve Jobs launched a new product such as the iPod o...
• People who love all fields of knowledge are the ones who can best spot the patterns that exist across nature.