Adam Braun
Autor von The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change
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Adam Braun began working summers at hedge funds when he was sixteen years. He graduated from Brown University and worked for Bain & Company. While traveling abroad, he met a young boy begging on the streets of India. When Braun asked him what he wanted most in the world, he answered, "a pencil." mehr anzeigen This experience became the inspiration for Pencils of Promise, the organization Braun would start with just $25 on his twenty-fifth birthday. He is the CEO of Pencils of Promise, which has broken ground on more than 200 schools around the world. His first book, The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change, was published in 2014. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
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It was interesting, and the pace was right - it kept me turning the pages, which is always a good thing.
What I dislike is that the book is at odds with its subtitle: "How an ordinary person can create extraordinary change". The author, Adam Braun, is not ordinary. He was born into a wealthy family, with many wealthy friends, lives in NYC (the good part, I imagine!), triple majored in college, attends galas, etc. He goes out of his way to explain how amazing he is, and then turns around and claims to be ordinary.
There is incessant name-dropping in the book. If it's not Sophia Bush or Justin Bieber, it's some CEO of some huge company. At first, I didn't mind the name-dropping. Credit where credit is due, right? If these people truly did help the organization get to where they are, no big deal. What bothered me is that Braun didn't go to great lengths to include the truly "ordinary" or "small" people, not by name and in as great of detail as all the famous/"big"/extraordinary people.
I got the impression that being "ordinary" is okay for everybody else - so long as Braun himself gets to stay more than ordinary.
(I also mistakenly thought the book would include more stories of work on the ground, and the stories of the people impacted through the schools and the communities they were built in - it definitely is not that, and focuses on the author, which is not necessarily a bad thing, I just didn't realize it going in.)
So overall, it was a good read and kept me entertained while reading, but left a bad taste in my mouth once I was finished.… (mehr)