11:17 a.m., Manhattan Beach. Susie and I are in the back of a large yellow convertible being driven back to the airport down Sepulveda Blvd. There are 4 lanes of traffic each way on this road, and we are going 49 miles an hour. The wind is whipping through my hair and over my sunglasses.
The sun is shining, and I have a slight sunburn because we ate our breakfast on a restaurant’s outdoor patio overlooking the ocean. The French toast came with fresh strawberries and bananas. After we ate, we went down to the beach and watched young men with no shirts on playing volleyball.
“I find myself thinking of a checklist Wozniak wrote a few years ago describing how to become a genius. His advice was straightforward yet strangely terrible: You must clarify your goals, gain knowledge through spaced repetition, preserve health, work steadily, minimize stress, refuse interruption, and never resist sleep when tired. This should lead to radically improved intelligence and creativity. The only cost: turning your back on every convention of social life.”
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.”
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