Each of us is unique and exceptional. We are all born with a natural curiosity about the world, a desire to discover, learn and create. How is it that this uniqueness, creativity, joy and freedom of expression are lost somewhere during adolescence and school education at that time? Do universal education systems based on the Enlightenment belief that we all come into the world as a "blank board" "freely written support our development and develop our abilities, or is it quite the opposite? Is school, trying to shape us according to the model imposed by the system and trying to fit us into the framework of social expectations, surely a condition for success and a fulfilled life? This is not, confirmed by examples of people who managed to break out of this system and go their own way. They are self-taught, those who, despite the lack of a formal, systemic education, are successful in various fields and industries, creating, inventing, modernizing, and often even revolutionizing their and their contemporaries' lives, making them better and easier.
The book "Successes of self-taught people, Kings of big business" contains fifty biographies of extraordinary people, self-taught entrepreneurs who, despite difficult conditions, poverty and lack of school education, achieved great successes in their lives, significantly influencing the world, as we know it. Let them prove to you that a fulfilled life and success depend primarily on work and independent development, and not on formal education.
In the book you will find the following characters: Karl Albrecht, Isak Andić, Giorgio Armani, Mary Kay Ash, Tomasz Bata, Albert-René Biotteau, Jean-Claude Bourrelier, Richard Charles Nicholas Branson, Ettore Bugatti, Andrew Carnegie, Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel, Natan Darty, Jean-Claude Decaux, John Paul DeJoria, Walt Disney (Walter Elias Disney), Jack Dorsey, Henry Ford, Amancio Ortega Gaona, William (Bill) Henry Gates III, Amadeo Peter Giannini, Hyman Golden, William Thomas Grant, David Green, Joyce Clyde Hall, Keneth A. Ken Hendricks, Milton Snavely Hershey, Sōichirō Honda, Steve Jobs, Henry John Kaiser, Ingvar Kamprad, Kerkor "Kirk" "Kerkorian, Rajmund Albert (Ray) Kroc, Carl Lindner Jr, Marcus Loew, Konosuke Matsushita, Werner Arthur Arnold Otto, Wolfgang Puck, Yves Rocher, John Davison Rockefeller, Anita Roddick, Henry Royce, Helena Rubinstein, Sonia Rykiel, Vidal Sassoon, Richard M. Schulze, Rex David "Dave" "Thomas, Hans Otto Wilhelm Wilsdorf, Charles Kemmons Wilson, Anna Wintour and Rein hold Wurth.
