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#566 - David Senra - Insights From History's Greatest Thinkers

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.74.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2022

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Summary

David Senra is a podcaster and a writer.

Many of the most important insights you need to learn to improve your life have already been discovered in the past. Thankfully David spends all his time reading biographies of the greatest thinkers, founders, entrepreneurs and inventors from history and has synthesised those lessons so you can remember them too.

Expect to learn how Steve Jobs came to think about time, what Kobe Bryant believed about the dangers of success making you soft, how the Rockefellers created their fortune, why crossing the Vanderbilts may result in you being very dead, whether anyone with extreme success managed to master a work-life balance, why you have to start reading Paul Graham's work, David's most recommended books and much more...

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0:00.0

Hello everybody, welcome back to the show. My guest today is David Sanderer, he's a

0:05.7

podcaster and a writer. Many of the most important insights you need to learn to improve your

0:11.3

life have already been discovered in the past. Thankfully David spends all his time reading

0:16.1

biographies of the greatest thinkers, founders, entrepreneurs and inventors from history and

0:21.2

synthesise those lessons so that you can remember them too. Expect to learn how Steve Jobs came

0:26.9

to think about time, what Colby Bryant believed about the dangers of success making you soft,

0:32.4

how the Rockefellers created their fortune, why crossing the Vanderbilt might result in you being

0:38.2

very dead, whether anyone with extreme success managed to master a work-life balance,

0:44.3

why you have to start reading Paul Graham's work, David's most recommended books, and much more.

0:50.8

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