The Man with No One to Talk to: and Other Rare Opportunities

Humility leads to understanding and unusual opportunities.

Always encouraged to be self-reliant. Repairing radios, lawnmowers, and cars since age ten, this person was destined to become an engineer. And after some difficulties in school and the divorce of his parents, he went to college and got his master's degree, and he did become an engineer, but that was just the beginning. He then got a PhD from Stanford University and cofounded an electronics company in Silicon Valley.

A life, in many w...