Which books inspired some of the world’s most successful people
– and why? Come on a journey of literary exploration and find out
how books can impact your life. It turns out that the life stories
of many famous people start out with a particular book that
inspired them when young. Here, Martin Cohen explores the lives of
some remarkable people – inventors, scientists, business gurus
and political leaders – and the books that have challenged,
inspired, and influenced them. And so exploring the ideas, dreams
and inspirations that this diverse group shared is at the heart of
this book too. Inspiration, in particular, is the thread that ties
together individuals with characters and backgrounds as diverse as
Jimmy Carter and Henry Ford, Jane Goodall and Barack Obama, Malcolm
X and Judge Clarence Thomas. Often, behind many tales of
achievement lies much more than a collection of smart tactics.
There are beliefs and values that guide many a grand strategy, too.
And the strategies are often very different, which if you think
about it, shouldn’t come as a surprise. If there really were just
one recipe for success, well, everyone would be using it already.
No, the thing that unifies these disparate approaches is that they
all provided for their owners a kind of conceptual grid onto which
a wide range of day-to-day creative, scientific, or business
practices are able to develop and grow. For Sergey Brin and Larry
Page, the founders of Google, for example, the grid was Charles
Darwin’s notions of natural mutation and iteration. With Henry
Ford, the man who pioneered the method of the assembly line, the
grid was an obscure, ethereal theory of life as a sequence of
reincarnations. And for both Oprah Winfrey and Steve Jobs, the grid
was existentialist ideas about the pursuit of authenticity. In all
these cases, a grand, indeed often philosophical, theory meshed
perfectly with a practical business strategy. All of these
remarkable people, and the books that most inspired them, are
explored in this book.
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