Bill Gates says Warren Buffett taught him to value free time: Filling ‘every minute of your schedule’ doesn’t make you more serious

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Bill Gates says Warren Buffett taught him to value free time: Filling ‘every minute of your schedule’ doesn’t make you more serious
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Bill Gates said he used to think leaders filled every minute of their days working toward success, until he saw Warren Buffett's calendar.

US philantropist Bill Gates speaks during the Global Fund Seventh Replenishment Conference in New York on September 21, 2022.sending 2:00 a.m. requests to employeesIt wasn't until he saw Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett's personal daybook that Gates learned to cut himself and his workers some slack.told journalist Charlie Rose

in an interview with Buffett in 2017. "[I] remember Warren showing me his calendar ... he [still] has days that there's nothing on it." Buffett's sparser schedule taught Gates an important lesson: "You control your time ... It's not a proxy of your seriousness that you fill every minute in your schedule."Buffett's method — which is essentially, "work smarter, not harder," — is actually backed by science.

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