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Yeah, I am not your typical person probably sitting in this seat and that I, maybe I am, I am not a nonfiction, business book, sorry Tim.
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Ryan Flaherty
American baseball player & coach
Good question. I’ve heard you ask this before, and I didn’t think you were going to ask me, and I should have been prepared for this. I’m a huge, avid reader. I truly believe – and I tell every person I train – is that one of the biggest reasons – the difference between where you are and where you want to go is knowledge. Read as much as you can. So, that’s a tough question. I think The Alchemist is a big one. I’ve loved that book for a very long time. The Bible is a big one, but I’ll give you an off-the-wall one, which is called The Slight Edge . Have you ever heard of that one?
Debbie Millman
Designer; host of Design Matters; founder of the SVA branding programme
Well, a book that has influenced my life and one that I keep going back to over and over is the anthology, The Voice That is
Terry Real
Family therapist and author
I’m a big fan of Jim Gilligan’s book Violence . It’s not an easy read.
Shinya Yamanaka
Stem cell biologist; Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 2012
A book also pushed me to become a medical doctor. I was deeply inspired by Torao Tokuda, a physician who founded a hospital group in the 1970s that tried to revolutionize the Japanese medical care system.
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Laureate-written autobiography for Les Prix Nobel, Nobel Prize Outreach, 1 December 2012
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