High achiever: Sir Ranulph Fiennes believes in chasing your dreams Photo: AFP/GETTY Patient notes Name: Ranulph Fiennes Age: 65 Job: explorer/travel writer Last book read: The Life and Times of Henry V, edited by Antonia Fraser Last film seen: Knowing Last music heard: Michael Jackson, The Man in the Mirror Last dose of live culture: Michael Jackson, This is It, in Leicester Square Patient examination What, in human history, do you wish had never been invented? Marxism. It did more than any other idea invented by humans to cause mass misery, starvation and death – and all based on a false premise. If you could have been born in a different century, which would it be? The 16th, during the Elizabethan era. It was a time when people in Britain had maximum scope for pioneering and revealed great courage as they braved unknown monsters. Everyone who went to sea, whatever their background, could go places. What would be your fantasy other job? I would like to have been a malt master at one of William Grant's factories (the father of the family business which later became Glenfiddich whisky).[Read more...]