Funny little interview with the inventor of the bagless vacuum, Sir James Dyson.https://twitter.com/ThePIBnyc/status/1071339494668992513 …
Good advice: "Whenever we went there, we thought you had to learn to behave like a Japanese person, you know, bowing. What I quickly learned is that’s not what they wanted from us at all. They wanted our eccentricity and difference. So, I carried on being an Englishman."
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My favorite part was Dyson's admission that the thing he once thought was incredibly boring—engineering—ended up interesting him the most and becoming the foundation of his fortune. I wonder how many other mega-successful people have a similar story...
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Warren Buffett is another good example: So much of his celebrity is attributable to his charisma as a public speaker—and yet into his 20s he had a physical-illness-inducing fear of public speaking.
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