Here are three reads you may find interesting:
1. Elementary Worldly Wisdom by Charles Munger [1994] (ycombinator.com)
“I’m going to play a minor trick on you today because the subject of my talk is the art of stock picking as a subdivision of the art of worldly wisdom. That enables me to start talking about worldly wisdom — a much broader topic that interests me because I think all too little of it is delivered by modern educational systems, at least in an effective way.”
2. How To Do What You Love (paulgraham.com)
“To do something well you have to like it. That idea is not exactly novel. We’ve got it down to four words: ‘Do what you love.’ But it’s not enough just to tell people that. Doing what you love is complicated.”
3. Late Bloomers (gladwell.com)
“Ben Fountain was an associate in the real-estate practice at the Dallas offices of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, just a few years out of law school, when he decided he wanted to write fiction. The only thing Fountain had ever published was a law-review article. His literary training consisted of a handful of creative-writing classes in college. He had tried to write when he came home at night from work, but usually he was too tired to do much. He decided to quit his job.”