We all know Bill gates as world most successful billionaire. Microsoft co-founder is the most genius and creative person till age, but how does he do it ?
Well its simple he tries to get in seven hours of sleep a night and read books, it helps him stay creative.
Bill Gate’s bedtime routine involves one hour of reading before going to sleep. “Like anyone who loves books, if you get into a good book it’s hard to go to sleep, ” he said.
He further said, “These five books kept me up long past when I should have gone to sleep”.
1: “The Vital Question” by Nick Lane: It explores the relationships between energy and genes. Despite its broad scope, the book’s fundamental interest also happens to be one of science’s greatest mysteries: How did life on Earth begin?
Lane, a biochemist, does an excellent job of illuminating and breaking down the complexities of biology. “He’s so intriguing,” Gates says. He seems to be the first guy who has looked into certain weird things about the mitochondria and has all sorts of ideas about diseases that really bear looking into.
2: “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind” by Yuval Noah Harari: A historian and philosopher, takes a look at the many possible reasons why Homo sapiens are so successful.
3: “How to Not Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking” by Jordan Ellenberg: This book is “a series of stories about how a lot of the apparently non-mathematical systems that underpin our daily lives are actually deeply mathematical, and people couldn’t develop them until they started asking the right questions.”
Gates praises Ellenberg’s ability to write about a complicated subject in a way that’s “funny, smooth and accessible.”
4: “The Power to Compete: An Economist and an Entrepreneur on Revitalizing Japan in the Global Economy” by Ryoichi and Hiroshi Mikitani: This book is centrally about Japanese economic prosperity from the perspectives of an economist and an entrepreneur. The authors, a father-son duo, examine the country’s core issues and explore different solutions that could lead to revitalization.
5: “Seveneves” by Neal Stephenson: It begins with a catastrophic event: The moon just exploded, what happens next? In a race against time, global leaders work together to save humanity by launching spacecraft beyond our atmosphere. This one is quite a gem, considering that you won’t find a ton of hard sci-fi novels on any of Gates’ book lists.
