Welcome back.

Nice to see you again.

This episode today has really nothing to do with money or investing.

It has to do with work and the kind of work that so many of us do today.

John D Rockefeller was the most successful businessman of all time.

He was also a recluse. He spent a lot of time just by himself. He rarely spoke to other people.

And he deliberately made himself inaccessible and remained quiet if you happen to catch his attention at the company.

A refinery worker who occasionally had Rockefeller's ear at work once said, quote,

he lets everybody else talk while he sits back and says nothing.

But he seems to remember everything, and when he does begin to speak, he puts everything in its proper place.

And there are so many examples of Rockefeller doing just that.

One of Rockefeller's favorite poems that he recited very often at work said, quote,

A wise old owl lived in an oak. The more he saw, the less he spoke. The less he spoke, the more

he heard. Why aren't we all like that old bird?

So look, Rockefeller was a strange guy.

But the more I read about him,

the more I realize that he had just figured something out that now applies to literally tens of millions of workers today

Rockefeller's job was not to drill oil wells or load trains or to move barrels of oil.

His job was just to make a good decision. And making decisions requires more than anything else, just quiet time alone in your own head to think a problem through.

So Rockefeller's product that he delivered wasn't what he did

with his hands or even with his words. It was what he figured out inside of his

head. So that's where he spent most of his time and energy, quietly

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