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When you stop learning, you begin the descent into failure.
The Polish pianist Ignacy Jan Paderewski famously said, “Miss one day of practice, I notice; miss two, the critics notice; miss three, the audience notices.”
Discipline carried Paderewski far beyond even being a pianist. With an astute recognition of how consistency affects self and others alike, Paderewski became the Prime Minister of Poland for a short time in 1919, during which he championed the signing of the Treaty of Versailles. It seems to me no accident that discipline in Paderewski’s craft as a musician translated into his political career as well.
A life of learning and practice led to a single critical moment that shaped world history for the better.
A Few Grand Moments
If you desire to live a meaningful life, you must pursue a lifelong practice of study.
The investor Warren Buffett says, “Our satisfactory results have been the products of about a dozen truly good decisions.” By ‘satisfactory results,’ Warren Buffett, of course, means hundreds of billions of dollars of returns on his assets under management. Both Warren Buffett and his late business partner Charlie Munger are famously voracious readers with a strongly held belief in the value of…
