James Dyson's autobiography "Against the Odds". It is an excellent book about original thinking and it is hugly underrated.
Ask HN: Books about people who persevered when no one else believed in them?
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#12Moby Dick.
NN Taleb basically has a book trilogy dedicated to making complicated life bets. Start with Black Swan. You can skip some.
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#13The Bible.
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#14Jet Man by Duncan Campbell-Smith about Frank Whittle who invented the jet engine (in parallel with Hans von Ohain)
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#15Cassandra was a Trojan priestess of Apollo in Greek mythology cursed to utter true prophecies, but never to be believed
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassandra
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#16Isaac Newton, Wright Brothers, almost any pioneer is doubted since it hasn't been done until they did it
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#17Nietzsche wrote most of his books in isolated obscurity and had to personally pay to get some of them published.
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#18Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society.
e.g. Peter Mitchell's chemiosmotic theory of how living cells power themselves at a molecular level was not accepted for many years.
Re: Ask HN: Books about people who persevered when no one else believed in them?
#19Not quite what you’re looking for, but highly recommend:
A Message to Garcia
This generation needs this mindset. My first manager gave it to me.
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#20Gregor Mendel