" podcast, where he interviews world-class humans by asking them just five questions in under 10 minutes.James Patterson, author of numerous New York Times bestselling books including the recently released "The Last Days of John Lennon."
What would you say the biggest turning point in your life and career was that led to you being so motivated to become the CEO of a large ad agency and a bestselling author? Doing the Kennedy book, for example, was interesting because a lot of people who've lived through it, when they read the book they go, "I forgot about a lot of that stuff" or "I never knew it in the first place." And then a lot of people under 40, they don't really know the story, just a little bit.
Then the love story with Yoko, which at the time a lot of people pissed all over it. But nowadays we would say, "You know what, it was a beautiful love story and God bless him." In those days they didn't want to accept it, they didn't want to accept that John was with Yoko, but they were really in love and that comes out in the book too.
Here's what I think about in terms of the audience: I pretend there's one person sitting across from me. I'm telling them a story, I don't want them to get up until I'm finished so it's really important to me in terms of what I do, I don't want to bore them. There are a lot of things we could try to do. I don't know that I can have any effect on global warming, but in terms of education we can actually affect stuff right now. If we taught movies in classrooms and it wouldn't be a bad thing, we could talk about character and plot and how you structure a story, et cetera. But if we start with Ingmar Bergman movies, kids will go, "Oh, I don't like movies.
Childhood education (read : brainwashing) is the key to the US' future.