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Which book changed the way you think, and what did it change?

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Read by field Everyone Science and medicine 4 Arts and letters 2 Politics and public life 6 Business and finance 1 Technology 3 Sport 1

Read by age Any age In their thirties 3 In their forties 2 In their fifties 2 In their sixties 5 Seventy and beyond 2

Sylvia Earle Marine biologist and oceanographer; first woman to serve as Chief Scientist of NOAA

I fell in love with the stories by William Beebe, who was an ocean explorer. He discussed what it was like to go down inside a submersible, and peer out of a port hole and see beautiful, luminescent fish, with lights down the side like ocean liners. Bizarre creatures of the sort that you just don’t see walking down the street, or going into the forest, or even looking around in shallow water.

Recorded Academy of Achievement recorded interview, American Academy of Achievement, 27 January 1991 source ↗

Sebastian Junger War correspondent and author; co-director of the documentary Restrepo

It’s amazing. I just started looking at everything differently. I love that book. But a book is a kind of thing of magic. It contains a universe of information.

Recorded Tim Ferriss, The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, 1 January 2018 source ↗

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