Almost every day, Michael Bloomberg spends an hour-and-a-half doing something that has nothing to do with his financial information empire, his work with the United Nations, or his philanthropic foundation.
He has a Spanish lesson at his office with a private instructor, sometimes in person but mostly via video call, especially when travelling. Convinced that the day you stop learning is the day you start dying, the 83-year-old billionaire has now been doing this for close to 25 years.
For most of that time, over on the other side of the Atlantic, Tim Martin was doing much the same thing. The founder of Britain’s Wetherspoon pub empire had every Wednesday from 3.45pm to 5.15pm blocked off in
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