Most of us, especially busy professionals, have our priorities completely mixed up. We chase goals, build careers, and pour energy into a hundred different things, all while neglecting the one thing that makes it all possible. It’s a lesson Warren Buffett explained perfectly to a group of college students in Omaha.
For most of my childhood, I was quietly terrified that my dad was going to die. When I was younger than ten, my siblings and I stumbled upon his secret: he was a smoker. He had probably hidden his miniature cigars from us so we wouldn’t pick up the habit ourselves, but once the cat was out of the bag, he started smoking in front of us.
Back in the mid-90s, the internet felt like a collection of digital clubhouses called bulletin boards. They were the original social media, places where you could find people who were into the same niche things you were, whether it was a specific TV show or fixing your own appliances. Fast forward to today, and that same spirit lives on in online forums.