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And I was given a book by a dear friend Greg marinac the Spirit of St Louis and I'm reading the book he gave it to me to encourage me to finish my pilot's license.
Peter Diamandis · StarTalk Radio · Feb 2024 Listen at 5:47 Where and when it comes up
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The Spirit of St. Louis by Charles A. Lindbergh is a Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir detailing the author's historic solo transatlantic flight and the monumental aviation challenges surrounding it. Peter Diamandis discussed the book extensively on StarTalk Radio and The Rich Roll Podcast, explaining that a dear friend named Greg Marinac gave him a copy to encourage him to complete his pilot's license. While reading the memoir and making notes in the margins about the financial stakes and the historical Orteig prize, Diamandis found himself deeply inspired to establish a parallel competition for space flight. He shared that sitting in the back pages of the book, reflecting on the legendary aviation feat, he famously wrote down the words XPRIZE. Diamandis credited this exact reading experience with providing the conceptual spark for his foundation, illustrating how the historical narrative of early aviation risk-taking and determination translated into a modern catalyst for aerospace innovation and private space exploration.
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Peter Diamandis and I was given a book by a dear friend Greg marinac the Spirit of St Louis and I'm reading the book he gav… 8
“and I was given a book by a dear friend Greg marinac the Spirit of St Louis and I'm reading the book he gave it to me to encourage me to finish my pilot's license”
“I was given a book by a dear friend Greg Marinac, The Spirit of St. Louis, and I’m reading the book. He gave it to me to encourage me to finish my pilot's license.”
“and I'm making notes in the margin of the book The Spirit of St Louis again that that uh that Lindberg published in 1957 won the pul Sur prize and he's talking about how much money the teams are all spending”
“And I’m making notes in the margin of the book, The Spirit of St. Louis, again, that Lindbergh published in 1957 won the Pulitzer Prize!”
“And so as I’m reading this book, The Spirit of St. Louis, I’m like, ‘I have to do a prize like this for space flight because I’m not going to get a chance of becoming a government astronaut or slim.’”
“and so in the back of the Spirit of St Louis that I'm reading that my friend Greg gave me to finish my Pilots license which I did eventually do at the end I wrote the words x prize and you know why I wrote the word X prize”
“And so in the back of The Spirit of St. Louis that I’m reading—that my friend Greg gave me to finish my pilot's license, which I eventually did at the end—I wrote the words XPRIZE!”
“And then I was given a copy of the Spirit of St. Louis Lindbergh's biography by a dear friend, Gregg Maryniak.”
