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Inspiration to Live Your Magic: 75 Inspiring Biographies
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The most powerful story we tell is the story we tell to ourselves about our self.In my youth, my story was based on my experience. In gym class, I was always the lastone picked for teams. “Who will take Larry?” the gym teacher would ask. Girls told me,“I just want to be friends,” but I wanted to be more than friends. My marks in schoolwere not impressive. I passed, but that was about it.After I dropped out of school at sixteen, I left home and got a job. Things seemed betterat first. My jobs would seem interesting and fun at the beginning, but they soon becamedrudgery. And the pay didn’t support much of a lifestyle. I might have accepted that if Icould have seen a future, but I couldn’t.The problem was: I was an expert on who I was not, but I didn’t have a clue who I was.My story about me was about who I wasn’t and what I couldn’t do. The truth was that Ifelt sorry for myself.Clearly, the story I was telling myself about me was holding me back. What I needed wassome perspective, and I got that perspective from reading the biographies of Anne Frank,Thomas Edison, and Benjamin Franklin.My troubles were tiny compared to those of thirteen-year-old Anne Frank hiding in anattic from the Nazis. Yet her response was, “I don’t think of all the misery, but of thebeauty that remains,” and, “Where there’s hope, there’s life.”I began to have hope, too.Some people said that Thomas Edison had failed more than any man who had ever lived.Yet that wasn’t how he saw it. He said, “I haven’t failed. I have just found 10,000 waysthat won’t work. Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way tosucceed is to try just one more time.”I began to see my mistakes and “failures” as learning experiences.What amazed me about Benjamin Franklin was that he admitted his faults and thenshared his plan for self-improvement. He detailed how he’d use a journal to monitor hisprogress and keep himself on track.I began to keep a journal and to think about how I could improve myself. The story I wastelling myself about myself started to improve. I decided to complete my high schooleducation.Every person in this collection inspires, by their response to challenges (and some ofthem face incredible challenges), by their commitment to serving humanity, and bystaying committed to their values.I believe every person who reads these stories will be inspired.

Louis Braille Blind from age three, Louis Braille learned to read at a school for the blind in Paris where, at that time, books for the blind could weigh as much as a hundred pounds! Inspired by the indented dots on dice, he invented the Braille system of reading and writing. In 1812, a three-year-old boy was playing in his fathers leather workshop in Coupvray, France when he had an accident that would change the world. Louis Braille accidentally poked himself in the eye with an awl: The metal point blinded him in one eye and an infection soon left him totally blind.
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Louis was a bright boy and won a scholarship to a school for the blind in Paris. It was not a particularly nice place; students were often fed bread and water and locked up for punishment. Louis and the other blind children were taught various skills (Louis became expert at playing the organ and cello), and they were taught to read. At that time, books for the blind used raised letters with metal wires under the paper, and some of the books weighed one hundred pounds! One day, a soldier visited the school and talked about a code system that he had invented in the French army. It used raised dots and dashes on a piece of paper to allow soldiers to send each other messages in the dark while remaining silent.
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Louis and the other children found the system too confusing, but the basic idea stuck in the boys head. He began experimenting with different ways of creating a language using raised dots on paper and for this, he used the same awl that had blinded him! One day, Louis Braille happened to pick up a pair of dice and feel the six dots on one side. Thats when inspiration struck him. He soon developed a code for each letter of the alphabet, with numbers and symbols like periods and question marks, all using no more than six dots. One great advantage of his system was that you could read each letter or symbol using the tip of your finger. With practice, a reader could run his finger along a line and read very quickly. The other big plus was that blind people using Brailles system could write as well as read. His system opened up a whole new world!
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It took many years for the Braille system to take off, and its popularity was still spreading when Louis died in 1852. Not many people can say that they invented an entire new system of reading and writing, but Louis Braille did. Whats more, his system was adopted around the world, and today is available in virtually every language that humans speak. ~ ~ ~
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