Lessons From Great Lives By Sterling Sill and Dan McCormick

Posted at 8:20 AM on Friday, April 11, 2008

This book authored by Sterling Sill was originally published in 1981 but has long been out of print. Entrepreneur and speaker Dan McCormick credits Lessons From Great Lives as one of the most influential in his life, so he arranged to have it republished with some additional material.

The book's premise is that there are lessons to be learned from the lives of others - especially the lives of people who made a difference in the world around them. It attempts to distill lessons from 19 such people into a short and easy to read tome.

It is hard to argue with the people selected. They include da Vinci, Emerson, Lincoln, Gandhi, Churchill, Socrates, Napoleon and many more. (It is always a good sign when people can be identified by just one name!). It's even harder to argue with the premise.

The book reads a bit like drinking from a fire hose - there is so much information and so many lessons written rapid fire that it made me tired. So, I slowed down my reading approach. This is not a book to read on a short plane flight, but rather one to savor, reading a few pages or one biography at a time to allow some of the lessons to soak in, and the ideas and connections you will gain to emerge.

Regardless of your approach to reading it, the lessons that can be gleaned from these great lives are amazing - and for that reason Lessons From Great Lives is worth reading and considering how to apply in your life.

Learn more and purchase at Amazon.com.

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