A puzzler 7 Replies What do the following people have in common? Mortimer Adler Woody Allen Julie Andrews Gene Autry Warren Beatty Marlon Brando Andrew Carnegie Winston Churchill Tom Cruise Michael Dell Charles Dickens Bo DIddley Barry Diller Joe DiMaggio Walt Disney Thomas Edison Larry Ellison William Faulkner Enzo Ferrari Bobby Fisher Henry Ford Robert Frost Benjamin Franklin Buckminster Fuller David Geffen Bill Gates John Glenn Ernest Hemingway William Randolph Hearst Adolph Hitler Eric Hoffer Jane Jacobs Steve Jobs Ray Kroc Ralph Lauren Annie Leibovitz Abraham Lincoln Charles Lindbergh Mark Twain Steve Martin Steve McQueen Claude Monet Marilyn Monroe Florence Nightengale Yoko Ono George Orwell Sidney Poitier Wolfgang Puck Marc Rich John D. Rockefeller Will Rogers Knute Rockne Karl Rove William Safire George Bernard Shaw Frank Sinatra W.Clement Stone Barbra Streisand Leo Tolstoy Cornelius Vanderbilt Gore Vidal H.G. Wells Walt Whitman Tiger Woods Steve Wozniak Frank Lloyd Wright Frank Zappa Mark Zuckerberg I’ll post the answer tomorrow. #itateam Image credit Share this:ShareLike this:Like Loading... Related posts: Steve and Bill schmooze… LearnTrends Conference is no more Addios, Oaxaca Museums your taxes pay for Concise take on using informal learning for profitability
Stephen Downes December 16, 2012 at 3:14 pm They’re all famous. And they’re all listed in this blog post.
Jay Cross Post authorDecember 16, 2012 at 4:50 pm You are of course correct, but I was hoping for something a bit less obvious, Stephen.
mark oehlert December 16, 2012 at 5:00 pm 1. They’re all dead or will be 2. They all learned things (riding a bike, swimming) late in life
Jay Cross Post authorDecember 16, 2012 at 10:25 pm None of these people graduated from college. Congratulations to Vedehi and John.
They’re all famous. And they’re all listed in this blog post.
You are of course correct, but I was hoping for something a bit less obvious, Stephen.
1. They’re all dead or will be
2. They all learned things (riding a bike, swimming) late in life
School or College dropouts
They are/were leaders.
I’m guessing that none of them earned a college degree…
None of these people graduated from college. Congratulations to Vedehi and John.