With our guest. But every guest is on indepth. We asked what they are reading and influences. Ch here is the look at mr. Issacsons answers. Host walter isaacson, who is walker percy . Is. Guest he was one of my original heroes mentor, uncle of a friend of mine, ugging by uncle by marriage. We called him uncle walker. We used to go across lake pontchartrain in new orleans where i group, and percy was a friend of ours. We couldnt figure out what anns dad did. Whats your dad do . A writer. And it wasnt until the movie goer came out in the early 960s 1960s, and i was 9 or 10 years old, and i go oh a writer thats something you can be when you grow up just like a fibberman, a doctor an engineer. And and so i took sort of an enter in, you know, dr. Percy, uncle walker. And, you know, i would sit there, and id sort of read his books and say, well theyre sort of deep, philosophical religious messages, especially in the moviegoer the last gentleman. And hed say things like, you know walter, ther
Discipline like the arts and sciences, the way ben franklin did, the way ada lovelace did and Albert Einstein. We talk about innovations so often, its almost drained of its meaning, and ive always liked to write about real people who are in a situation whether it whether it be after world war ii when you have to create a whole new world order like the world bank and the Marshall Plan or steve jobs who says okay we are now in a digital revolution and have to make it personal. These are people who are able to think different and outofthebox. So i want to try to explore the creative mind and how it works. Host one of the themes in all of your her books seems to be the connection to spirituality. Everybody had written about the leaves believes whatever they did was part of something larger than themselves. I remember sitting with steve jobs at the end of his life and i asked him why did you do what you do, what was the meaning and he said life is like a river. You get to pick things out of
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