Love this speech by Bill Gurley - one of the common things across top professionals like Bob Dylan, Danny Meyer, etc was that they studied everything they could find about their field, they were masterful students first.
When you select a profession, you are choosing the scenes that will compose your life. You should think pretty hard about those scenes. If you start a plumbing company with more than one employee, you will be telling plumbers what to do. You’d better enjoy hanging out with plumbers, and telling them what to do. And when you ask yourself whether... See more
Advice I would give to a college freshman:
These next four years, one of your main goals should be to figure out how not to have the rest of your life be a long series of soul-sapping jobs
If you want to be happy after college, learn how to do one or multiple of these:
• Run your own... See more