MentorMindsThe Journal
The mentors — their lives and philosophies, the lessons and teachings they left behind, and how their beliefs compare, collide, and still speak to the questions we carry.
He proved microbes cause disease, saved French wine and French silk, and then gambled a child’s life on a rabies vaccine he had not finished testing.
Six hundred works by thirty-five, and he spent the best years of it broke — because he walked away from a salary to work for himself before anyone else dared.
A naval officer whose car crash sent him into the water, who co-invented scuba, and who spent his later life defending the oceans he had shown the world.
Leipzig hired him third, after two better-known men turned the job down. He gave them several complete years of new music and died thought of as an organist.
The merchant’s son whose account of China was dictated in a Genoese prison, annotated by Columbus, and argued over ever since.
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