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The Essay

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Essays from leading writers on arts, history, philosophy, science, religion and beyond.

Leading writers on arts, history, philosophy, science, religion and beyond, themed across a week - insight, opinion and intellectual surprise.

The Essay: The Book that Changed Me

The Essay: The Book that Changed Me: Episode 5: Luke Johnson on The Magic of Thinking Big

Luke Johnson on The Magic of Thinking Big

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Episode 5: Luke Johnson on The Magic of Thinking Big

The Book that Changed Me

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Entrepreneur Luke Johnson celebrates the classic self-help book The Magic of Thinking Big.

Entrepreneur Luke Johnson celebrates the simple but powerful messages of the classic self-help book The Magic of Thinking Big by David J Schwartz.

Serial entrepreneur Luke Johnson celebrates the simple but powerful messages of the self-help classic, "The Magic of Thinking Big" by David J Schwartz." "His book is not great literature," he admits. "Indeed, it is popular psychology at its most obvious." However, Johnson defends its power as "basic but also profound" - and it has influenced his huge success with a series of household name businesses.
Producer: Smita Patel.

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