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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

Keith Black Neurosurgeon; chair of neurosurgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

I remember reading The Making of a Surgeon when I was in probably about the sixth or seventh grade. And that was a book that kind of got me focused, I think, on the career path. And I remember, one thing in there I still remember is that you can always tell you’ve really arrived as a surgeon when the nurses in the hospital ask you to be their physician.

Recorded Academy of Achievement recorded interview, American Academy of Achievement, 4 May 2001 source ↗

Wendy Kopp Founder of Teach For America; chief executive of Teach For All

The Fountainhead , I think, pretty much saved me in the initial years of Teach For America. I loved that book, but I’m not sure books were the seminal thing that guided my path. ... I think it was sort of about “the creator against the world,” and I was probably feeling at that point that I was up against lots of boulders, to pull off the big idea of Teach For America.

Recorded Academy of Achievement recorded interview, American Academy of Achievement, 17 September 2013 source ↗

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