[Njtechdiv] This book changed my life

[Jane Degenshein]

One of the best books I have read with blindness at its core was
The Blind Doctor: the Jacob Bolotan story
You can get that on BARD and I always recommend that book to anyone blind or 
sighted
If you haven’t read it, you should it will change the way you see your life 
almost 100 years after his struggles and what he achieved despite all that 
wasn’t in place for him


From: PRAMIT BHARGAVA via Njtechdiv
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2019 1:13 AM
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Cc: PRAMIT BHARGAVA
Subject: Re: [Njtechdiv] This book changed my life

It may be interesting to find more motivational books like these...


Thanks
Pramit

On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 6:16 PM Jane Degenshein via Njtechdiv 
<njtechdiv at nfbnet.org> wrote:

  Well glad that you found strength in this book and then in yourself
  BTW the book is also available on BARD:
  Touch the top of the world: a blind man's journey to climb farther than 
the eye can see DB51505
  Weihenmayer, Erik. Reading time: 12 hours, 3 minutes.
  Read by Dan Bloom.

  Sports and Recreation
  Adventure
  Disability

  In this adventure-packed memoir, the author recalls rebelling against 
becoming blind by age fifteen. Relates acquiring a passion for 
mountaineering and developing the character traits that enabled him to 
succeed. Covers his climbing exploits and his wedding on top of Mount 
Kilimanjaro. Some strong language. 2001.


  From: PRAMIT BHARGAVA via Njtechdiv
  Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 7:37 AM
  To: njtechdiv at nfbnet.org
  Cc: PRAMIT BHARGAVA
  Subject: [Njtechdiv] This book changed my life

  Hello friends,



  I am Pramit. I am visually impaired (cannot read at all).

  A while back I finished reading this great book by Erik Weihenmayer, a 
blind mountaineer. Erik’s attitude towards life is so powerful and 
motivating that it really shook me up that I could focus on bigger things in 
life than getting trapped in the day to day nonsense.



  The book’s title is “Touch the Top of the World: A Blind Man's Journey to 
Climb Farther than the Eye Can See”, and its available on Audible.



  Hence this led to a resolution that I will single mindedly go after my 
passion to build better  tech solution which will work for me and in the 
process, hopefully, will work for broader visually impaired community.



  Divine forces have enabled me to put together a tech startup with an 
equally motivated partner.



  My interest in technology is due to it playing a pivotal role in keeping 
me working independendly even as my vision kept dropping since 1999.



  Amongst other things, I am a voracious reader (hearer of audiobooks), I 
love meditating and I am also an experimental cook. I was lucky enough to 
reverse my diabetes through significant lifestyle changes about 10 years 
back. Sharing my learning and motivating others online is another interest 
area. I do this strictly on a non-commercial basis. Link: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2knVCQE9_70



  Thanks

  Pramit




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