Contents

1. Cover
2. Half Title
3. Title
4. Copyright
5. Contents
6. Acknowledgments
7. Introduction
8.  1 Meet the Wild Things
   1. Barack Obama and Jane Goodall
   2. Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
   3. The Story of Dr. Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
9.  2 Roll the Dice
   1. Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Richard Branson
   2. Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart (aka George Powers Cockroft)
   3. Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
10.  3 Save the Planet—One Page at a Time!
    1. Rachel Carson and Frans Lanting
    2. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
    3. The Wonderful Adventures of Nils by Selma Lagerlöf
11.  4 Search for Life’s Purpose
    1. Steve Jobs and Evelyn Berezin
    2. Be Here Now by Ram Dass
    3. Astounding Science-Fiction by various authors
12.  5 See the World in the Wider Social Context
    1. Jacob Riis and Mike Duffy
    2. The Deerslayer, or The First War-Path by James Fenimore Cooper
    3. Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
13.  6 Be Ready to Reinvent Yourself
    1. Henry Ford and Jimmy Carter
    2. A Short View of Great Questions by Orlando J. Smith
    3. Moral Man and Immoral Society by Karl Niebuhr
14.  7 Set Your Thinking Free
    1. Thomas Edison and Harry Kroto
    2. Common Sense by Thomas Paine
    3. The Timaeus by Plato
15.  8 Make a Huge Profit—and Then Share It
    1. John Rockefeller and Warren Buffett
    2. The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham
    3. Extracts from the Diary and Correspondence of the Late Amos Lawrence; With a Brief Account of Some Incidents of His Life by William R. Lawrence
16.  9 Recognize the Power of Symbols
    1. Malcolm X and Clarence Thomas
    2. The Autobiography of Malcom X by Alex Haley
    3. The Story of Civilization by Will Durant
    4. My Grandfather’s Son: A Memoir by Clarence Thomas
17. 10 Follow Your Personal Legend
    1. Malala Yousafzai and Oprah Winfrey
    2. Aleph by Paulo Coelho
    3. The Seat of the Soul by Gary Zukav
    4. The Secret by Rhonda Byrne
18. Afterword: What Happened When Wittgenstein
    1. Met Tristram Shandy
    2. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
    3. Tractatus Logicus Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein
19. List of Books Featured in the Text
20. Sources and Further Reading
21. Selected Bibliography
22. About the Author