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Patterson

Floyd Patterson (1935 to 2006), American boxer, Olympic champion and heavyweight champion of the world.

Discipline Is Destiny: The Power of Self-Control, Ryan Holiday

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• Discipline Is Destiny: The Power of Self-Control, Ryan Holiday
• The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results, Gary Keller, Jay Papasan

  James Patterson, an American author of thrillers and novels. Keller borrows the image of the five balls from his novel Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas.

• A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson

  Clair Patterson, an American geochemist. In the 1950s he worked out the age of the Earth, about 4.5 billion years, and then spent years fighting to get lead out of gasoline.

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