PAUL LATHAM

I learned this formula for success from Charlie Munger:

1. Don’t sell stuff you don’t want to buy.

2. Don’t work for people you don’t want to become.

3. Create win-win relationships for all.

People naturally remember musical language, and I would encourage writers to inject their prose with a bit of music. When you’re writing, think about repetition and variety. Crescendos and rests. Pace and punctuation. Read your work out loud, and feel the rhythm of the words in your voice.

If we set out to ask a question and rush to answer it, we haven't allowed the question to hang suspended over the void, We haven't listened.

Open-endedness creates the space for a response to come. Let's call this space a "pause." The pause is not only the secret of knowing yourself, it is the secret of all healing. Within the pause, the response... See more

"Doesn't it strike you as interesting that we are in the second decade of the 21st century and a lot of the most interesting music is still being made by people playing very primitive instruments like electric guitars and drums.

I mean, what is a drum kit? It could be a bunch of old chairs or cans or anything. It's really quite an arbitrary bunch of... See more