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Life Lessons I’ve Learned From Brilliant and Creative People I’ve Met
The profound insights I gained from personal encounters with remarkable minds
I talked one-on-one with R. Buckminster Fuller
by accident, but also definitely by synchronicity.
“Richard Buckminster Fuller (/ˈfʊlər/; July 12, 1895 — July 1, 1983)[1] was an American architect, systems theorist, writer, designer, inventor, philosopher, and futurist. He styled his name as R. Buckminster Fuller in his writings, publishing more than 30 books and coining or popularizing such terms as “Spaceship Earth”, “Dymaxion” (e.g., Dymaxion house, Dymaxion car, Dymaxion map), “ephemeralization”, “synergetics”, and “tensegrity”.”
He spoke one bright, Spring morning at Texas Wesleyan University where I worked. The University president introduced him by telling the story of a man from another country who sat on a panel with “Bucky” and who had tears in his eyes after Bucky spoke. Another panelist asked later what he enjoyed the most from Bucky’s speech. He answered, “I don’t know. I don’t speak English. But I could hear the brilliance in his voice.” Even knowing English, R. Buckminster Fuller’s thoughts and ideas were…
