[57] Legacy in Motion: The Story of My Great-Great-Grandfather
While I enjoy reading stories in many forms, there’s nothing quite like a biography.
Munger described reading biographies as gathering wisdom from the “eminent dead”. Not only is it entertaining but also enlightening. You get to glean first-hand experience without having to go through the tribulations. And you end up learning a lot about what not to do, versus finding a story to try and emulate.
More recently, I’ve read biographies about prominent Americans who helped shape the country: Franklin, Washington, Lincoln, Grant, Eisenhower, LBJ, James Baker…
And also financiers and businessmen: Jay Gould, Aristotle Oanassis, Lee Iococca, Walt Disney, J. Paul Getty, Rockefeller, Mark Rich…
And global figures: Mandela, Churchill….
And of contemporaries: Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, David Goggins, Gary Stevenson, Andrew Wilkinson, Andre Agassi, J. Prince…
