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Through the Looking GlassKey Business and Life Lessons from Lewis
Carroll Pommie Lutchman – CCMG ChairpersonFebruary 2016
Lewis Carroll (27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898)
• Real name Charles Lutwidge
Dodgson
• Writer, Mathematician, Logician,
Anglican Deacon and Avid
Photographer
• “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”
• “Through the Looking Glass”
• www.lewiscarroll.org
Lewis Carroll Facts
1. Migraines, and epilepsy, stammering, partial deafness, and
ADHD.
2. 11 books on mathematics, and 12 works of literary fiction.
3. Could write 20 words a minute, a page of 150 words in seven and
a half minutes, and 12 pages in two and a half hours.
4. Wrote over 98,000 letters in his lifetime (sometimes upwards of
2,000 times in one year)
5. Financially inept.
Lewis Carroll Facts
6. The Cheshire cat was inspired by cheese molds from
the Cheshire county in England
7. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland has been translated
into more than 70 languages.
8. There’s a white rabbit and Alice holding a flamingo
immortalized in stained glass in the Christ Church
College at Oxford, where Carroll spent most of his life.
9. Only traveled abroad was in 1867 on a trip to Russia,
stopping in Poland, Germany, Belgium, and France.
Do go down the Rabbit Hole
“It was much pleasanter at home,' thought poor Alice, 'when one wasn't always growing larger and smaller, and being ordered about by mice and rabbits. I almost wish I hadn't gone down that rabbit-hole—and yet—and yet—it's rather curious, you know, this sort of life!”
Know Yourself
“'Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: 'we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.'
'How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.
'You must be,' said the Cat, 'or you wouldn't have come here.'”
Accept advice from Unexpected Places
“'One side will make you grow taller, and the other side will make you grow shorter.”
Believe in the Impossible
Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said: 'one can't believe impossible things.'
'I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Always indulge in the whimsical
“"Twinkle, twinkle, little bat!
How I wonder what you're at!”
"Up above the world you fly,
Like a tea-tray in the sky.
Twinkle, twinkle …"'
Communicate carefully with others
“You should say what you mean," the March Hare went on.
"I do," Alice hastily replied.
"At least I mean what I say.
That's the same thing you know."