Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos, With an Introduction by Walter Isaacson

Introduction by Walter Isaacson

The first is to be curious, passionately curious.

Leonardo did not need to know these things to paint the Mona Lisa (though it helped); he needed to know them because he was Leonardo, always obsessively curious. “I have no special talent,” Einstein once said. “I am only passionately curious.” That’s not fully true (he certainly did have special talent), but he was right when he said, “Curiosity is more important than knowledge.”

A second key trait is to love and to connect the arts and sciences.

People who love all fields of knowledge a...