I really enjoyed the book how to be like a ball: capturing the Disney magic every day of your life. The book was written almost like a biography and told the story of Walt Disney. I talked about 20 lived in the Midwest as a boy. I talked about how he got started animating and then how is that talent and curiosity grew in that field. It talked about his life becoming a movie mogul and pushing the edges of what animation could do when hiring animators and growing the company and all that. It was a very fascinating read!
Biggest things that I got from it is Walt was always curious and he was always thinking about the future and how things that he was learning and running across now could be used in future endeavors. How about tomorrow? Was one of the most memorable quotes that they talked about in the book.
I love how he built the team around him to where he could come up with some wacky idea like building the Matterhorn in Disneyland and just sending a postcard from my Europe and say build this and then he gets back in their puzzling through how to build it. I love how they talk about later on in life how he learned about anima Tronics and the young people into the company that could do those sorts of things so that he could bring Abraham Lincoln to life at the world's fair and then bring it back to Disneyland in the Hall of Presidents.
The whole book was interesting, though for the end when he knew that it was talking about his upcoming passing away and the company going on without him I got kind of sad but it didn't drag too much. Needn't it ended on high notes and talk about all the occult accomplishments that the people had as they carried on without him. Epcot turned into the themepark instead of the city of tomorrow that he wanted to build but that's okay.
I highly recommend how to be like Walt exclamation point it was a good book and I gleaned a lot from it.
