Alfred Nobel made his fortune as the result of an invention of dynamite. One morning he awoke to read his own obituary in the paper. You see, his brother had died, but a careless reporter had published the obituary of the wrong Nobel.

It described him as “the dynamite king, the industrialist who became rich from explosives.” It made Alfred Nobel sound like nothing more than a merchant of death.

Needless to say, Nobel was more than a little upset by what he saw...not simply that the wrong person was being remembered, but the horrible portrait it painted. Alfred Nobel resolved that day to change the course of his life and do something positive for society. He wanted to change his legacy, rewrite his obituary.