patterns in the lives of great people if you study enough biographies, documentaries, interviews; you start to see repeating structures. different lives, same architecture. here’s the blueprint almost all great people share: 1. a period of intense isolation they disappear for years. you think they fell off; but that’s when they’re cooking. deep work. obsession. long lonely nights. they resurface with something that changes the game. 2. an early spark some childhood moment that burns into their brain. a teacher, a machine, a failure, a movie, a sound. something that makes them go, “I want to understand this for the rest of my life.” 3. obsessive iteration they don’t do something once. they do it a thousand times. till it’s muscle memory. every great person has a graveyard of early failed attempts that nobody saw. 4. disrespect for convention they question the “normal” way of doing things; not for rebellion, but for truth. they can’t stand inefficiency or intellectual laziness. they break systems, then rebuild them better. 5. suffering → transformation...