The Art and Benefits of Wasting Time & 45 Billionaires Share Their Secrets to Success
Something You Should Know
Mike Carruthers | OmniCastMedia
4.5 • 4.3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2018
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Today on Something You Should Know, one of the most common decorating mistakes you may |
| 0:07.2 | be making and how to fix it. |
| 0:09.2 | Then ask 45 billionaire entrepreneurs what's their secret to success and you get a lot |
| 0:15.3 | of answers. |
| 0:16.3 | I'll tell you the biggest one that surprised me. |
| 0:19.0 | You hear about this a lot now, but I have to tell you it's never planned. |
| 0:23.3 | Everybody can get passionate around their first idea. |
| 0:25.9 | It tends to be that success for all these folks was not the original idea. |
| 0:30.9 | Also, you'll be shocked to know how often fish is mislabeled in the store. |
| 0:36.3 | And I know you're busy, but there are some real advantages to just wasting time. |
| 0:41.2 | Well, by wasting time, I mean doing something that is unstructured where there's no goal. |
| 0:48.3 | It has been documented that a mind that is wandering and unstructured is a more creative |
| 0:54.7 | mind. |
| 0:55.9 | All this today on Something You Should Know. |
| 1:01.0 | I just learned discover credit cards do something pretty awesome. |
| 1:05.6 | At the end of your first year, they automatically double all the cash back you've earned. |
| 1:11.1 | That's right. |
| 1:12.1 | Everything you've earned doubled. |
| 1:14.0 | All the cash back from eating at your favorite soup dumpling restaurant doubled. |
| 1:18.9 | All the cash back from that trip you sort of learned how to snowboard also doubled. |
| 1:24.3 | And the best part, you don't have to do anything ridiculous to get it. |
| 1:28.1 | Oh, discover does it automatically. |
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