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Michael Lewis

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The Navigator

Judgement in the fog, money, risk and the call others cannot make.

Michael Lewis earns The Navigator not through prediction but through attention so sustained it becomes foresight, reading terrain that institutions obscure. His method is a journey by design: curiosity draws him into a subject, moral obligation fixes the heading, and he leads readers through complexity toward the human beings hidden beneath institutional noise. He charts rather than crusades, which is precisely why his maps hold.

IN THEIR WORDS, WHY NAVIGATOR

The best, the closest thing to the best way to predict the future is just pay attention to the present. You pay closer attention to the present than other people are. The future is there.

ON HOW HE ANTICIPATES EMERGING STORIES

I get curious, I start to get involved. I realize, oh my god, look at this story — it has to rise to the level that this story is so important that I have an obligation to do it.

EXPLAINING HIS WRITING MOTIVATION

If you hear these stories, some part of you will think I shouldn't really think that — it's more complicated than that. There are unbelievable people here, in many ways the best among us.

ON THE PURPOSE OF WHO IS GOVERNMENT

MASTERS IN BUSINESS

Masters in Business: “Bonus: An Evening with Michael Lewis, From "Liar’s Poker" to Today”

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