Yahoo Finance Bill Gates’ biggest fear, and other things inside his brain
Billionaire and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has been vocal about his company, his career and his work ethic, but not so much about himself and his mind.
Now, in a new TV series titled Inside Bill’s Brain: Decoding Bill Gates, we’ll be able to get a glimpse into what makes Gates’ dark grey matter tick.
The three-part documentary was produced by Academy Award-winning director, Davis Guggenheim, and is coming to Netflix September 20.
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In the first few scenes of the trailer, we find out Gates’ favourite animal (dogs), food (hamburger) and breakfast (nothing).
And, he also reveals his biggest fear: “I don’t want my brain to stop working”.
Thirty seconds in, you can see the similarities between Gates and an actual computer.
“Bill is a multiprocessor,” his wife Melinda said.
“He’ll be reading something else but then processing at the same time – it’s chaos.”
“He makes a framework in his mind, and then he starts slotting in the information.”
But Gates didn’t find sharing his personal life easy.
"The work side, that comes pretty naturally. The only thing that's a little awkward is where they're trying to talk about personal life and parents and all that type of stuff," Gates told Guggenheim.
Guggenheim, on the other hand, said Gates made himself ‘an open book’.
"In the beginning I said, 'Look, I'm going to ask you every question I have on my mind. I'm not going to be worried about being overly sensitive,'" Guggenheim said. "I didn't go home ever thinking, 'God, I was too scared to ask that question.' I asked him everything."
Guggenheim interviewed Gates’ sisters, wife Melinda and even Warren Buffet for the series.
"The truth is, what I've learned about Bill is he is very passionate and emotional. But he puts those emotions to the side," he said.
"If you're solely led by your heart, you may not see the great solution standing in front of you and I think that's what Bill's superpower is."
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