<div dir="ltr">It may be interesting to find more motivational books like these...<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks</div><div>Pramit</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 6:16 PM Jane Degenshein via Njtechdiv <<a href="mailto:njtechdiv@nfbnet.org">njtechdiv@nfbnet.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div><font color="#000000" size="4">Well glad that you found strength in this
book
and then in yourself</font></div>
<div><font size="4">BTW the book is also available on BARD:</font></div>
<h4><a class="gmail-m_3844983674802389255book_title"><font face="Times New Roman">Touch the top of the world: a blind man's journey to
climb farther than the eye can see DB51505</font></a></h4><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font style="font-size:12pt">Weihenmayer, Erik. Reading time: 12 hours, 3
minutes.
<br>Read by Dan Bloom. <br><br>Sports and
Recreation<br>Adventure<br>Disability<br><br>In this adventure-packed
memoir,
</font></font><font style="font-size:12pt"><span class="gmail-m_3844983674802389255hghlght">the</span><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> author recalls rebelling against becoming
blind by age fifteen. Relates acquiring a passion for mountaineering and
developing </font><span class="gmail-m_3844983674802389255hghlght">the</span><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> character traits that enabled him to
succeed.
Covers his climbing exploits and his wedding on </font><span class="gmail-m_3844983674802389255hghlght">top</span><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
</font><span class="gmail-m_3844983674802389255hghlght">of</span><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> Mount
Kilimanjaro. Some strong language. 2001.</font></font></font><br>
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<div><b>From:</b> <a title="njtechdiv@nfbnet.org" href="mailto:njtechdiv@nfbnet.org" target="_blank">PRAMIT BHARGAVA via Njtechdiv</a> </div>
<div><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, February 19, 2019 7:37 AM</div>
<div><b>To:</b> <a title="njtechdiv@nfbnet.org" href="mailto:njtechdiv@nfbnet.org" target="_blank">njtechdiv@nfbnet.org</a> </div>
<div><b>Cc:</b> <a title="pramit.vision@gmail.com" href="mailto:pramit.vision@gmail.com" target="_blank">PRAMIT BHARGAVA</a> </div>
<div><b>Subject:</b> [Njtechdiv] This book changed my life</div></div></div>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;line-height:1.38" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:nunito;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal">Hello
friends, </span></p><br>
<p style="margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;line-height:1.38" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:nunito;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal">I
am Pramit. I am visually impaired (cannot read at all). </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:nunito;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal"><br></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:nunito;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal"><br></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:nunito;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal">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.</span></p><br>
<p style="margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;line-height:1.38" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:nunito;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal">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.</span></p><br>
<p style="margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;line-height:1.38" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:nunito;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal">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.
</span></p><br>
<p style="margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;line-height:1.38" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:nunito;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal">Divine
forces have enabled me to put together a tech startup with an equally
motivated
partner. </span></p><br>
<p style="margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;line-height:1.38" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:nunito;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal">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. </span></p><br>
<p style="margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;line-height:1.38" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:nunito;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal">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: </span><a style="text-decoration-line:none" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2knVCQE9_70" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:nunito;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2knVCQE9_70</span></a></p><br>
<p style="margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;line-height:1.38" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:nunito;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal">Thanks</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;line-height:1.38" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:nunito;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal">Pramit</span></p></span><br class="gmail-m_3844983674802389255gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div>
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