#345 George Lucas

I don't think you have to listen to the Quentin Tarantino episode. 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 gonna see so much similarities in how they approach their work. I talked about last week how Spielberg would watch and re watch movies that he loved. Decades later, entire scenes from those movies would appear in his own movies. Tarantine would do the exact same thing.

George Lucas talks about doing this, you're gonna 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 multi billion 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. And 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.

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