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
Jane Goodall and Barack Obama, Malcolm X and Judge Clarence Thomas,
Oprah Winfrey and Malala Yousafzai, Rachel Carson and Frans
Lanting. 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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