He is controversial. You may agree or disagree. However, after discounting what you feel you should feel when you read an autobiography, there is a lot to learn. His father was very successful in his encyclopedia venture because he “edited robustly”.

If you cannot communicate well and briefly, don’t, he advices.

People who have to-do lists are among those who get things done.

And, of course, well schooled, well educated, seasoned, lots of experience of all kinds behind, or so he says, start-up nation and the longest-serving prime minister of Israel. What is a prerequisite? Education! Do not be at the mercy of the experts!

We see how the Israeli mature much earlier in life due to their having to serve at the IDF early in life, giving them a base training cum education that provides them a competitive edge in life versus most who have little sense of tragedy in their education.

It is interesting to see how structural change mattered. When Bibi was elected PM, Israel was under currency controls and the resultant effect on the economy of these controls.

He speaks about structural reform from the privatization of industry to freeing the shekel. He quotes Lee Kuan Yew when he says we tried communism and it failed, we tried mixed economies and we did not do so well, so what is left? Market economies…we have little choice.

He speaks of choices he had to make and why…to protect Israel. You may or may not agree but his perspectives do teach…