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Eric Liddell, the Scottish sprinter later portrayed in Chariots of Fire, refused to run his best event, the 100 meters, at the 1924…
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Reading His Own Obituary
Account of Alfred Nobel, 1888
In 1888 Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, awoke to read his own obituary in the newspaper. It was a journalistic error—his brother had died—but the shock was real. The world remembered him as the “Dynamite King,” a merchant of death who had grown rich from explosives. None of his hopes for peace or progress were mentioned. Horrified at the legacy he saw, Nobel resolved to change how he would be remembered. The result was the Nobel Prizes. Few of us will read our own obituaries early, but the question remains: if the story of our life were written today, what would it say we were for?
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Powerful for legacy and how we will be remembered. The shock of seeing himself only as “merchant of death” led to the Nobel Prizes.
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