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Simply Genius!: And Other Tales from My Life
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Format
Number Of Pages, Discs, Etc.
284
Publisher
Date Published
June 15, 2011
ISBN-10
1401929583
ISBN-13
9781401929589

An autobiography usually recounts the life of a person who has achieved wide acclaim in one field. But this extraordinary book describes the life of someone who has achieved international acclaim in three fields!

Ervin Laszlo was a child prodigy on the piano and grew up to become an internationally celebrated virtuoso. By the time he reached his 40s, however, he had become a famous scientist and philosopher, and had written a dozen books and more than a hundred articles. He also taught at major universities in Europe, the U.S., and the Far East. Shortly thereafter, he gained world renown as a global visionary, heading research programs at the United Nations and founding an international think tank (the Club of Budapest).

But this book is not an autobiography in the traditional sense. In Laszlo’s own words: “I don’t like talking about myself, about what makes me tick and why. Writing about all the things that have happened to me is different. This is storytelling—the telling of a real, lived story: my story, as it unfolded over the years.”

Join the author on his remarkable journey from his days as an internationally acclaimed concert pianist . . . to his profoundly personal quest to effect positive global transformation!

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Simply Genius!: And Other Tales from My Life 2011-10-10 21:45:47 Miriam Knight
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Miriam Knight Reviewed by Miriam Knight    October 10, 2011
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What an absorbing memoir of an extraordinary life! Laszlo writes with such grace and imagery that we are pulled into the narrative of his journey. An innocence and intense curiosity about life seem to have characterized his approach to the world around him. Surviving the occupation of Hungary in hiding from the Nazis, he went onto the premier concert stages of the world and then on to make his mark in the worlds of science and philosophy.

It is fascinating to listen to the stories of such an original and richly complex mind, and breathtaking to appreciate the scope of his vision. This is a book to be savored and from which to draw inspiration.

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