The Wright Brothers

✅ The greatest thing in their favor was a family that constantly encouraged intellectual curiosity. That’s a cheat code you can build for yourself: stay curious on purpose. ✅ "It is the aggressive man who has his eye on his own interests that succeeds. No man has ever been successful in business who is not aggressive, self-assertive, and even a little bit selfish perhaps. There is nothing reprehensible in an aggressive disposition as long as it is not carried to excess. Such men make the affairs of the world move." Aggressive doesn’t have to mean cruel. It means you push. You ask. You insist. You move the world instead of waiting for it. ✅ The brothers were constantly reading books about the people who came before them to pick up where they left off. They then went to the Smithsonian institute, asked for every document they had on flight, asked Octave Shinut for advice on where they should fly, and asked the weather bureau for wind patterns. They were not afraid to ask people for help. This is of the utmost importance. ✅ Blueprint: test, iterate, test, iterate. Work long hours. Concentrate. Ignore the naysayers. Progress is usually boring on the outside and relentless on the inside. ✅ Wilbur got hit in the face with a hockey stick at 18, killing his Yale dream. At the same time, he watched his mother die and couldn’t stop it. Sometimes the plan dies. Then you build a different one.