So it took me nine years to get to episode 400.
That means over the last nine years,
I've read and reread 400 biographies and autobiographies of history's greatest entrepreneurs.
My number one recommendation has been for many years and still is to this day,
James Dyson's first autobiography called Against the Odds.
I covered James Dyson's first autobiography on episode 25, episode 200, episode 300.
And on episode 400,
what I've done is spent the last two weeks reading and rereading both his first autobiography and his second autobiography.
Dyson wrote his second autobiography about 20 years after his first.
So I want to read two sections from his first autobiography,
and then I'll tell you how this episode would be different from the other Dyson episodes.
First thing he says, I am led to the belief that for vision,
one might equally well read stubbornness at any stage in my story when I talk of vision.
And arrogance seems to have gotten the better of me.
Remember that I am celebrating only my stubbornness.
I am claiming nothing but the virtues of a mule.
I think that is one of the most important sentences in his first autobiography and is why I'm naming this episode the stubborn genius of James Dyson,
the second thing I want to read to you.
He says, this is a business philosophy,
which is very different from anything you might have encountered before.