What I learned from rereading George Lucas: A Life by Brian Jay Jones.
I don't think you have to listen to the Quentin Tarantino episode or the Steven Spielberg episode before you listen to this episode on George Lucas.
But if you haven't listened to them, I would listen to them after you listen to this episode, because you're going to see so much similarities in how they approach their work.
I talked about last week how Spielberg would watch and rewatch movies that he loved.
Decades later, entire scenes from those movies would appear in his own movies.
Tarantino did the exact same thing.
George Lucas talks about doing this.
You're going to hear him being addicted to reading biographies, studying history, reading science fiction.
A lot of the stuff that he was learning as a young person he would use a decade later, and the influences that he used to build Star wars, which is obviously the cornerstone of his multibillion dollar empire, have been well documented.
And you see the exact same thing with company builders.
This is just like Edwin Land's ideas that show up in Steve jobs companies and products.
It's just like Sam Walton's ideas showing up in Jeff Bezos companies and products.
It's just like Henry Singleton's ideas showing up in how Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger built Berkshire Hathaway.
Charlie Munger said Henry Singleton was the smartest person that he ever met.
Warren Buffett said it was a crime that business schools didn't study him.
And so I go back and start reading about Henry Singleton.
You realize, oh, wow, these ideas that I was attributing to Munger and Buffett actually originated with Singleton.
And that is a main theme that reappears over and over again for anybody that gets to the top of their profession.
Anybody who becomes great at what they do is seeped.
They are all seeped in the history of their industry.
They talk about these ideas over and over again.