The Wrong Obituary

Alfred Nobel, a Swedish chemist, made a fortune through the invention of dynamite. But his life was changed by a journalist’s mistake. When his brother died, the newspaper wrote the obituary for Alfred Nobel instead of his brother. Reading his own obituary, identifying him as a man who’d made his money through weapons of destruction, profoundly impacted Nobel. It became the turning point in his life. He decided to use his fortune from that point on for the establishment of awards for achievements in literature, chemistry, physics, medicine and peace.

Today, few, if any of us, think of Alfred Nobel in terms of explosives. We associate him with peace and literature and science.

If you were to read your obituary in the newspaper tomorrow, how would you be remembered? There’s still time to make a course correction if you need to.

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