“The most important, and indeed the truly unique, contribution of management in the 20th century was the fifty-fold increase in the productivity of the manual worker in manufacturing.” — Peter Drucker Peter Drucker, one of the most respected management thinkers in history, stated these words at the close of the…

When self-made billionaire investor Ray Dalio wanted to understand changing world events, he didn’t just look at the latest news. He became an amateur historian and spent months looking back at cycles going back hundreds of years — something almost no one else does. When Bill Gates wanted to grow…

Seven years ago, I swallowed a bitter pill. Up to that point I had read hundreds of books. Yet, when asked about specific ones, I often realized I had forgotten almost everything. The brutal reality was I had wasted thousands of hours. You know what I’m talking about. Right? It’s…

The year is 1976. Anders Ericsson is an unknown, newly minted PhD. Little does he know that he is on the verge of what would be “the most surprising two years” of his career. Ericsson and his collaborator Bill Chase are about to begin the study that will ultimately lead…

“In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn’t read all the time — none. Zero.” — Charlie Munger, Self-made billionaire & Warren Buffett’s longtime business partner Why did the busiest person in the world, former president Barack Obama, read an…

Over the last few years, I’ve spent nearly 1,000 hours thinking deeply on, researching, and writing about a simple question that has profound implications… What percentage of our workweek should we spend on learning and experimentation in order to have a thriving career? In 5-Hour Rule, I make the case…

“In order to keep up with the world of 2050, you will need not merely to invent new ideas and products but above all to reinvent yourself again and again.” — Yuval Noah Harari The most important skill anybody can learn is the ability to learn rare and useful skills…

Over the last five years, I’ve spent over a thousand hours uncovering the most surprising and important learning habits of the world’s top innovators, like Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Jeff Bezos. More recently, I’ve realized there is a deeper pattern that connects all these innovators together. That…