How many extra hours per year does Walker claim Buffett gains by saying no?

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Why highly successful people say no to almost everything #Habits

11 Jun 2020 · 1 min

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TJ Walker argues that very successful people say no to almost everything so they can free time to go deep in a few areas of real strength. He uses Warren Buffett as the central example, claiming Buffett’s habit of declining most opportunities gives him roughly 1,000–2,000 extra hours per year to read business reports, quarterly reports, and conference-call transcripts—work many find tedious but which yields advantage.

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About 1,000 to 2,000 extra hours per year.

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Warren Buffett has famously said that the difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful people say no to almost everything. It gets a lot of attention. There's some truth to it. But the underbelly of that, that doesn't get as much attention. The reason that works for people is they now have so much more time to really go deep into things they're truly good at. Warren Buffett says no to most opportunities. That gives him 1,000 or 2,000 extra hours a year to read business reports and quarterly reports and transcripts of conference calls, something most people would find too boring to do. That is why it's so powerful to say no to almost everything.