Associated with this book is The Noticer Project. It asks you to list up to five people who most influenced your life and to notice them. Never mind that the noticing in the book is by the old man observing other people. You can even do the noticing publicly, online. Before I visited the site, I came up with this list (much better than the one I made when I was 40):
Four of these are well-known. Ms. Wilder was my mentor for a quite few years. She was one of those special people who bring out the best in others. She was also a topnotch bureau chief and a crack news reporter, mainly with the Miami Herald. They are listed roughly in the order in which I "discovered" them.Albert Schweitzer Margaret Mead Bertrand Russell Anne Wilder Stephen Covey
I willingly surfed to the site, only to discover that the people you want to notice need to have email addresses. Most of mine are dead! I think that says something about the quality of the lives they led and their lasting influence on the world. I wish I could say the same for Andrews' book.
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