Founders

What I learned from reading Birdmen: The Wright Brothers, Glenn Curtiss, and the Battle to Control the Skies by Lawrence Goldstone.----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders at Founders Notes.com----[1:07] The Wright Brothers (Founders #239)[3:47] Avoid any activity that distracts you from improving the quality of your product and the quality of your business.[5:58] Completely self-taught, he made spectacular intellectual leaps to solve a series of intractable problems that had alluded some of history's most brilliant men.[9:46] The Wright-Curtiss feud was at its core a study of the unique strengths and flaws of personality that define a clash of brilliant minds. Neither Glenn Curtiss nor Wilbur Wright ever came to understand his own limits, that luminescent intelligence in one area of human endeavor does not preclude gross incompetence in another. And because genius often requires arrogance, both men continuously repeated their blunders.[13:38] P.T. Barnum: An American Life (Founders #