The Element

Notes

Chapter One: The Element

GILLIAN LYNNE: All material in this segment came from an original interview for this book.

MATT GROENING: All material in this segment came from an original interview for this book.

PAUL SAMUELSON: Paul Samuelson, “How I Became an Economist,” http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/articles/samuelson-2/index.html.

Chapter Two: Think Differently

MICK FLEETWOOD: All material in this segment came from an original interview for this book.

SENSES: Kathryn Linn Geurts, Culture and the Senses: Bodily Ways of Knowing in an African Community (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003).

Andrew Cook, “Exploding the Five Senses,” http://www.hummingbird-one.co.uk/humanbeing/five.html.

BART CONNER: All material in this segment came from an original interview for this book.

IQ, SAT, AND EUGENICS: Jan Strydom and Susan du Plessis, “IQ Test: Where Does It Come From and What Does It Measure?” http://www.audiblox2000.com/dyslexia_dyslexic/dyslexia014.htm.

“Timing of IQ Test Can Be a Life or Death Matter,” Science Daily Magazine, December 6, 2003.

“The Future of the SAT,” http://chronicle.com/colloquylive/2001/10/SAT/.

Alan Stoskepf, “The Forgotten History of Eugenics,” http://www.rethinkingschools.org/archive/13_03/eugenic.shtml.

ALEXIS LEMAIRE: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22768356-13762,00.html.

GORDON PARKS: Andy Grundberg, “Gordon Parks, a Master of the Camera, Dies at 93,” New York Times, March 8, 2006.

Corey Kilgannon, “By Gordon Parks, A View of Himself and, Yes, Pictures,” New York Times, July 7, 2002.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment/jan-june98/gordon_1-6.html.

http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/oralhistories/transcripts/parks64.htm.

R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER: http://www.designmuseum.org/design/r-buckminster-fuller.

ALBERT EINSTEIN: Walter Isaacson, Einstein: His Life and Universe (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007).

Chapter Three: Beyond Imagining

FAITH RINGGOLD: The majority of the material in this segment came from an interview conducted by the author. Additional details came from http://www.faithringgold.com/ringgold/bio.htm.

BERTRAND RUSSELL: Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy, and Its Connection with Political and Social Circumstances from the Earliest Times to the Present Day (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1945).

PLANETARY PHOTOS: Graphics by Pompei AD, New York.

THE TRAVELING WILBURYS: Original interview with John Beug, senior executive, Warner Music Group.

http://www.travelingwilburys.com/theband.html.

http://www.headbutler.com/music/traveling_wilburys.asp.

RICHARD FEYNMAN: Richard Phillips Feynman and Christopher Sykes, No Ordinary Genius: The Illustrated Richard Feynman (New York: W. W. Norton, 1994).

RIDLEY SCOTT: All material in this segment came from an original interview for this book.

PAUL MCCARTNEY: All material in this segment came from an original interview for this book.

Chapter Four: In the Zone

EWA LAURANCE: All material in this segment came from an original interview for this book.

AARON SORKIN: All material in this segment came from an original interview for this book.

ERIC CLAPTON: http://www.moretotheblues.com/lapton_sessions.shtml.

JOCHEN RINDT: http://www.evenflow.co.uk/mental.htm.

WILBUR WRIGHT: http://www.pilotpsy.com/flights/11.html.

MONICA SELES: M. Krug, personal interview of Monica Seles, 1999.

FLOW: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (New York: HarperCollins, 1990).

BLACK ICE: Simóne Banks, “Black Ice,” Scheme, February 4, 2007.

http://www.musicremedy.com/b/Black_Ice/album/The_Death_of_Willie_Lynch-3238.html.

MIND MAPPING: http://www.imindmap.com/.

THE MYERS‐BRIGGS TYPE INDICATOR: David J. Pittenger, “Measuring the MBTI… and Coming Up Short,” Journal of Career Planning & Placement, Fall 1993.

http://www.juliand.com/psychological_type.html.

http://www.teamtechnology.co.uk/tt/t-articl/mb-simpl.htm.

HERMANN BRAIN DOMINANCE INSTRUMENT: http://www.juliand.com/thinking_style.html.

TERENCE TAO: http://blog.oup.com/2006/09/interview_with_/.

http://www.college.ucla.edu/news/05/terencetaomath.html.

Chapter Five: Finding Your Tribe

MEG RYAN: All material in this segment came from an original interview for this book.

DON LIPSKI: All material in this segment came from an original interview for this book.

HELEN PILCHER: Helen Pilcher, “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Lab,” Science, December 6, 2002.

BRIAN RAY: All material in this segment came from an original interview for this book.

DEBBIE ALLEN: All material in this segment came from an original interview for this book.

MICHAEL POLANYI: Michael Polanyi, “The Republic of Science: Its Political and Economic Theory,” in Knowing and Being (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1969).

BOB DYLAN: Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Vol. 1 (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004).

RANDALL COLLINS: Randall Collins, The Sociology of Philosophies: A Global Theory of Intellectual Change (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press, 1998).

DOROTHY LEONARD AND WALTER SWAP: Dorothy Leonard and Walter Swap, “Gurus in the Garage,” Harvard Business Review, November– December 2000.

GREAT GROUPS: Warren G. Bennis and Patricia Ward Biederman, Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration (New York: Perseus Books, 1997).

KIND OF BLUE: Bill Evans, liner notes to Kind of Blue by Miles Davis, Columbia Records, 1959.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN: Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005).

ROBERT CIALDINI: Dr. Alan Eshleman, “BIRGing, CORFing and Blasting,” San Francisco Chronicle, November 20, 2002.

FAN bEHAVIOR: http://www.tcw.utwente.nl/theorieenoverzicht/Theory%20clusters/Interpersonal%20Communication%20and%20Relations/Social_Identity_Theory.doc/.

http://www.units.muohio.edu/psybersite/fans/sit.shtml.

HOWARD COSELL: Howard Cosell, Cosell (Chicago: Playboy Press, 1973). Howard Cosell, I Never Played the Game (New York: William Morrow, 1985).

BILLY CONNOLLY: Pamela Stephenson, Billy (New York: HarperCollins, 2001).

Chapter Six: What Will They Think?

CHUCK CLOSE: Jon Marmor, “Close Call,” Columns: The University of Washington Alumni Magazine, June 1997.

http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/oralhistories/transcripts/close87.htm.

CANDOCO DANCE COMPANY: Malcolm Tay, “In the Company of Able(D) Dancers,” Flying Inkpot, October 2, 2000.

PAULO COELHO: Paulo Coelho, op‐ed, Indian Express, February 7, 2006.

http://www.worldmind.com/Cannon/Culture/Interviews/coelho.html.

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON: All material in this segment came from an original interview for this book.

GROUPTHINK: Judith Rich Harris, The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do (New York: Free Press, 1998).

Vanessa Grigoriadis, “Smooth Operator,” New York, January 17, 2005.

Solomon Asch, “Opinions and Social Pressure,” Scientifi c American, 1955.

Jerry B. Harvey, The Abilene Paradox and Other Meditations on Management (Lexington, Mass.: Lexington Books, 1988).

ZAHA HADID: http://www.designmuseum.org/design/zaha-hadid.

Chapter Seven: Do You Feel Lucky?

JOHN WILSON: John Coles, Blindness and the Visionary: The Life and Work of John Wilson (London: Giles de la Mare, 2006).

Obituary, Independent (London), December 3, 1999.

Obituary, New York Times, December 7, 1999.

RICHARD WISEMAN: Richard Wiseman, The Luck Factor (New York: Miramax, 2003).

VIDAL SASSOON: All material in this segment came from an original interview for this book.

BRAD ZDANIVSKY: Pieta Woolley, “Hell on Wheels,” Straight.com, July 7, 2005.

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1123261552811_118670752/?hub=Canada.

Chapter Eight: Somebody Help Me

WARREN BUFFETT: Roger Lowenstein, Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist (New York: Random House, 1995).

RAY CHARLES: http://www.whomentoredyou.org.

MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN: Matilda Raffa Cuomo, The Person Who Changed My Life (New York: Barnes & Noble, 2002).

PUBLIC/ PRIVATE VENTURES: http://www.ppv.org/ppv/publications/assets/219_publication.pdf.

JACKIE ROBINSON: http://www.mentors.ca/Story13.pdf.

PAUL MCCARTNEY: All material in this segment came from an original interview for this book.

JAMES EARL JONES: Matilda Raffa Cuomo, The Person Who Changed My Life (New York: Barnes & Noble, 2002).

DAVID NEILS: http://www.telementor.org/aboutus.cfm.

Chapter Nine: Is It Too Late?

SUSAN JEFFERS: All material in this segment came from an original interview for this book.

HARRIET DOERR: Yvonne Daley, “Late Bloomer,” Stanford Magazine, 1997.

PAUL POTTS: http://www.paulpottsuk.com.

JULIA CHILD AND MAGGIE KUHN: Lydia Bronte, “What Longevity Means to Your Career,” Five O’Clock Club News, July 2001, http://www.fiveoclockclub.com/articles1_index.shtml#2001.

RIDLEY SCOTT: All material in this segment came from an original interview for this book.

DR. HENRY LODGE: Chris Crowley and Harry S. Lodge, M.D., Younger Than Next Year: Live Strong, Fit, and Sexy—Until You’re 80 and Beyond (New York: Workman, 2005).

http://www.theupexperience.com/speakers.html.

DR. SUSAN GREENFIELD: Susan Greenfield, The Human Brain: A Guided Tour (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1997).

GRACE LIVING CENTER: Marti Attoun, “School of a Lifetime,” American Profi le.com, December 1, 2002.

SOPHIA LOREN: http://www.sophialoren.com/about/by.htm.

Chapter Ten: For Love or Money

GABRIEL TROP: All material in this segment came from an original interview for this book.

“THE PRO‐AM REVOLUTION”: Charles Leadbeater and Paul Miller, “The Pro‐Am Revolution: How Enthusiasts are Changing Our Economy and Society,” www.demos.co.uk, 2004.

ARTHUR C. CLARKE: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/orchid/amateurs.html#fea_top.

http://lakdiva.org/clarke/1945ww/.

SUSAN HENDRICKSON: http://www.geocities.com/stegob/susanhendrickson.html.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/orchid/amateurs.html#fea_top.

“TIFF” WOOD: David Halberstam, The Amateurs: The Story of Four Young

Men and Their Quest for an Olympic Gold Medal (New York: Ballantine Books, 1985).

A LEG TO STAND ON: Burt Helm, “Hedge Funders Band Together for Charity,” Business Week, October 20, 2006.

KHALED HOSSEINI: http://www.bloomsbury.com/Authors/microsite.asp?id=480§ion=1&aid=1873.

http://www.bookbrowse.com/biographies/index.cfm?author_number=900.

MILES WATERS: http://www.nature.com/bdj/journal/v201/n1/full/4813815a.html.

JOHN WOOD: Bob Cooper, “Rich in Books,” San Francisco Chronicle, September 26, 2004.

http://www.roomtoread.org/media/press/2007_09_27_cgi.html.

SUZANNE PETERSON: All material in this segment came from an original interview for this book.

MICHAEL FORDYCE: http://gethappy.net/v202.htm.

Chapter Eleven: Making the Grade

RICHARD BRANSON: All material in this segment came from an original interview for this book.

PAUL MCCARTNEY: All material in this segment came from an original interview for this book.

“THIS LOOKED‐DOWN‐UPON THING”: Courtesy of Takeshi Haoriguchi. UNEMPLOYMENT RATES FOR COLLEGE GRADUATES: http://www.epi.org/content.cfm/webfeatures_snapshots_archive_03172004.

COLLEGE‐LEVEL JOB OPENINGS IN THE UK: http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3068443.stm.

EARNINGS OF COLLEGE GRADUATES: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/census/2002-07-18-degree-dollars.htm.

GRADUATION RATES AROUND THE WORLD: http://www.economist.com/PrinterFriendly.cfm?story_id=9823950.

CRAM SCHOOLS: Sheryl WuDunn, “In Japan, Even Toddlers Feel the Pressure to Excel,” New York Times, January 23, 1996.

THE TESTING INDUSTRY: Barbara Miner, “Keeping Public Schools Public,” Rethinking Schools, Winter 2004–5.

PAUL MCCARTNEY: All material in this segment came from an original interview for this book.

REGGIO SCHOOLS: Carolyn Edwards, Lella Gandini, and George Forman, The Hundred Languages of Children: The Reggio Emilia Approach Advanced Refl ections (Greenwich, Conn.: Ablex, 1998).

LORIS MALAGUZZI: Loris Malaguzzi, “Invece il cento c’e,” translated by Lella Gandini.

http://www.brainy-child.com/article/reggioemilia.html.

http://www.reggioalliance.org/schools/index.html.

GRANGETON: Portions of this segment came from an original interview for this book.

http://www.tes.co.uk/search/story/?story_id=2043774.

http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/casestudies/casestudy.cfm?id=344.

OKLAHOMA A+ SCHOOLS: Nicole Ashby, “Arts Integration at Oklahoma School Provides Multiple Paths for Learning,” Achiever, June 1, 2007. http://www.aplusok.org/.