Genre:
Non-Fiction
Description:
"If
you're needing inspiration, read this book!
Every
significant scientific advance became manifest amidst an audience of
naysayers. Every person who ever amounted to anything, every
dedicated dreamer, every doer, every person who was set on
accomplishing something of importance or uniqueness, did so around
people who said he or she couldn't do it. Every one of them.
Whether it
were friends, family, colleagues, or the 'experts,' there was always
somebody, and more often than not a chorus of somebodies, who said
'it' couldn’t be done.
But they
didn't listen..."
Author:
"G.R.
Howard is Georgian by birth, and currently living in Dallas by way of
Los Angeles and Portland. A proud graduate of the Grady College of
Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia, this
is his first book. When not writing and earning a living, he spends
most of his time with two old convertibles and his much-beloved 1964
Vox amplifier."
Appraisal:
This book
consists of a series of short chapters, each of which starts with a
naysaying quote about something or someone. For example, Bill Gates
saying “there's no money to be made there” in regards to the
Internet. As the book's title makes clear, those people were Wrong!
The remainder of the chapter explains what really happened in each
case.
Every
significant scientific or technological advance became manifest
amidst an audience of naysayers.
That line
from the forward of Wrong!
summarizes the point the author hopes you'll take away from this
short book. The point is that those who accomplish great things do so
by believing in themselves and not giving up, regardless of what the
naysayers think.
Format/Typo
Issues:
No
significant issues
Rating:
**** Four Stars
Reviewed
by: BigAl
Approximate
word count: 20-25,000 words
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