15: Read a Biography

I just went to Atlanta for the 2009 A4 training. To pass time on the flight, I brought Baby Proof, a book I have been casually trying to read for about a month. Well, I actually finished it, so I needed to have something to read on the way back.

I was in the airport and stopped in one of those little kiosks full of magazines and NY Times best-sellers. While I was perusing though the titles, I came across three possibilities, two of which I still plan on reading. I picked Born Standing Up not only because it looked interesting but because I knew it has been one of my goals to read a biography.

This biography is an honest and funny account of Steve Martin's rise to fame as one of the most well-know comics in recent history. He makes you realize that he is just a human, doing what he wanted to do. The most interesting part to me was his idea of the comedy that he set out to produce. He wanted to do what nobody before him did and to break all of the rules of what made something funny. He did it, and sometimes it worked and other times he failed. Ultimately, he won the game and then he walked away from it all.