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R. Buckminster Fuller’s 22 Self Disciplines For Life & Business Success
From dramatic business failure and on the brink of suicide, Richard Buckminster Fuller had an epiphany and became one of the greatest minds of the 20th Century. Here’s how he did it.
In 1927, Buckminster Fuller found himself in financial ruin and personal turmoil. Five years earlier, his first child, Alexandra, had died aged four from spinal meningitis. Now his construction business had failed, leaving him ruined and family investors with nothing. Fuller was reclusive, depressed and drinking heavily. As he considered drowning himself in Lake Michigan, he had an epiphany and began to redesign his life. He assigned himself as a human guinea pig in a lifelong experiment and documented progress in what he called the “Cronofile”. He subsequently established 22 self disciplines that were to become the foundation stone of a globally successful career. By his life’s end, Buckminster Fuller had become a renowned inventor, design architect, and globally recognised thought leader in sustainable technology. These are the core principles that guided his life and career.
I am not precisely sure how I came first to read the work of R. Buckminster Fuller. I suspect it was through an advocate of…
