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motivating biographies


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motivating biographies

Topic started by ixno on May 5, 2005 4:24:21 pm

want to get to the top the easy way ie dont want to have to reinvent the wheel so to speak
so can someone pls recommend some good biographies


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Post by amrita on May 10, 2005 11:56:59 pm

ixie - motivation depends on who you read and what it sparks off in you. I guess what i like about them, is that they are ppl who did what they wanted to do and had a good time at it and were ’’successful’’ too. its wish fulfillment by proxy. :)


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Post by ixno on May 10, 2005 12:12:24 pm

in keeping with the short cut theme - my question should have been - pls tell me what you find so motivating about all these typeA characters
lots of reading to do


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Post by InstantKarma on May 9, 2005 8:02:08 pm

Read the biography of George W. Carver


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Post by rozaiba on May 9, 2005 5:19:24 pm

Your Welcome.


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Post by ixno on May 9, 2005 10:18:44 am

i guess i asked for that
thankyou all for your recommendations


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Post by rozaiba on May 9, 2005 8:15:02 am

# 8, you mean you’ll read about that...


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Post by aimie on May 9, 2005 4:18:49 am

#7, we’ll see about that!


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Post by rozaiba on May 8, 2005 10:47:53 pm

The life and times of Rozaiba...(not begun yet, but it’s bound to be highly captivating)


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Post by temporal on May 8, 2005 7:18:43 am

lee iocacca

google:)


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Post by amrita on May 7, 2005 5:33:14 am

go to www.bn.com and go to the biographies section. you should be able to find what you’re looking for. (T)


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Post by ixno on May 6, 2005 11:28:25 am

this is a good start
not sure - corporate related success stories
probably
more to do with an overall self improvement theme


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Post by amrita on May 6, 2005 9:11:16 am

yes he did. i was thinking of ’’the agony and the ecstasy’’ myself. i like creative nonfiction. any one here who’s a purist enuff to hate em?:?


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Post by rahul_capri on May 6, 2005 3:50:47 am

Irving Stone wrote a bunch of good ones.


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Post by amrita on May 5, 2005 10:10:34 pm

:)) dont we all. get to the top of what field though?

for an interesting read there is Charlie Chaplin’s autobiography, someone also mentioned Alfred Hitchcock’s though i havent made my way to it yet. Isabel Allende’s My Invented Country was an amazing read. There’s this Italian guy whose name i can never remember: Roberto Valerio or something like that who wrote a three part biogrpahy of Alexander the Great called ’’Alexander’’ which was an amazing read.

If you’re looking at corporate honchos then Donald Trump regulalrly comes out with grandiose acounts of himself. It might get you to the top but honestly, it has a lot more of how wonderful he is than anything else. Steve Jobs though, wrote a good one.

what are you looking for exactly?


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