The greatest builders in history share one habit that changed their fortunes.

You’ll hear how a single paragraph led Munger to a $500 million investment, how Jeff Bezos started Amazon because of one statistic in an article, and how Elon Musk saw an opportunity through the absence of information.

This episode is about building your mental warehouse of ideas, training your intuition, and developing the kind of insight that compounds for life.

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Timestamps
0:00 Intro: The compounding power of reading
0:49 Investor quotes on reading
2:04 A real competitive advantage
2:32 A 50-year habit and the $500M outcome
3:25 The Tenecco idea and the $8M to $80M jump
4:42 Sponsor: CapitalPad
5:52 Jeff Bezos: One stat that launched Amazon
6:09 Morris Chang (TSMC): A textbook insight that rewired an industry
6:36 Elon Musk: no Mars plan
6:50 Dietrich Mateschitz
7:11 Bill Gates: The Altair 8800 moment
7:25 Phil Knight: Japanese trade finance to Nike’s supply chain
7:43 Reading dividends vs. “luck”
8:28 Reading as an edge: Building a mental warehouse
8:55 Naval Ravikant on lifelong reading
9:23 Sponsor: Spacebar Studios
10:27 $8M to $80M to $500M
10:50 “5 to 10 great insights in a life”
11:10 BYD: The Asian counterpart insight
11:40 The 29x BYD outcome
11:48 How reading trains intuition: “You can almost smell it”
12:22 The ultimate unfair advantage of reading
13:00 Final challenge: Are you reading like your life depends on it?

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