The Element

Index

Abilene Paradox, 144–45

Adderley, Julian “Cannonball,” 124

aging, 195–98, 202–6

Ailey, Alvin, 115–16

Allen, Debbie, 114–16

Altman, Robert, 122

amateurs, 209–18

derivation of word, 210

leisure vs. recreation, 218–24

in Olympic Games, 212–13

Pro-Am Revolution, 210–11

transformation, 216–18

Anlo Ewe people, 31

ants, swarms of, 146–47

aptitude, 22–24, 159, 179–80

Aristotle, 36, 121

Armstrong, Lance, 185

Armstrong, Neil, 186

Aronica, Lou, 180–81

Asch, Solomon, 144

Athenian Stoics, 121

attitude, 22, 24–25, 156, 159, 160–68

authenticity, 90–94

balance, 31–32

Ballantine, Ian, 180–81

Bardens, Peter, 29

Bates, Edward, 126

Beatles, 10, 113, 125

Bennis, Warren, 123

Biederman, Pat Ward, 123

Big Brothers Big Sisters, 178, 185

Bill (car salesman), 214–15

Binet, Alfred, 38

BIRGing (Basking in Reflected Glory), 128

Black Ice, 94–96, 116

blindness, 156–59, 200–201

Bogdanovich, Peter, 122

Book Buddies, 204–6

brain:

and creativity, 76–79

and culture, 150–51, 152

gender differences in, 78

hemispheres of, 77–78

of infants, 198–99

and intelligence, 44

and language, 150, 199–200

lateral occipital complex, 151

and memory, 79

neural pathways of, 199, 201–2

physical development of, 201

plasticity of, 200–201

structural differences in, 151

and visual perception, 150–51

brain cells, 201, 202

Branson, Sir Richard, 225–27

Brecht, Bertolt, 32

Brigham, Carl, 41

Bruce, Jack, 29

Buffett, Warren, 176, 179

Buzan, Tony, 97

CandoCo Dance Company, 135–36

Capaldi, Jim, 217

Carson, Rachel, Silent Spring, 253–54, 259

Chambers, Paul, 124

chance, 25, 160, 161

change, pace of, 17–21

Charles, Ray, 176–77, 178, 179

Chase, Salmon P., 126

Chee, Michael, 151

Child, Julia, 192, 206

Christie, Agatha, 196–97

Cialdini, Robert, 128

cities, growth of, 256–57

Clapton, Eric, 29, 91, 217

Clarke, Arthur C., 211

Clawson, Mr., 185

Cleese, John, 11

climate crisis, 252–58

Close, Chuck, 132–35, 155, 194

Cobb, Jimmy, 124

Coelho, Paulo, 137–38, 155

Coghill, Neville, 241

Cohen, Adolph, 164

Coles, John, 158

Collins, Randall, 121

Coltrane, John, 124

Comaneci, Nadia, 34

Comedy Research Project (CRP), 110

common sense, 32

conformity, 144, 230–35

Connelly, Billy, 130–31

Conner, Bart, 33–34, 48

contagious behavior, 149

Cooper, Robert, 44

Coppola, Francis Ford, 122

Cosell, Howard, 130

Cowell, Simon, 191

creativity, 16, 55–57

and the brain, 76–79

dynamics of, 70–76, 125–26

features of, 71–73

and imagination, 57–59, 66, 70, 81

and insight, 76–77

and media, 72–76, 79

myths of, 56–57

opening your mind to, 76–82

power of, 67–70, 81, 82

process of, 71–72

reach of, 81

thinking outside the box, 97–100

critical reasoning, 37

Crouch, Donald, 183–84

crowd vs. tribe, 127–29

Cruddington, Grace, 166

Crumb, Robert, 5

Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly, 92

culture:

and the brain, 150–51, 152

constraints of, 152–55

contagious behavior in, 149

definition of, 148

influence of, 148–52

and language, 149–50

survival manual for, 152

swimming against the tide, 152–55

Davis, Miles, 28, 124–25

Death Valley, 258

deindividuation, 129

Descartes, René, 37

disapproval, fear of, 137–42

diversity, 46–49, 121, 125

Doerr, Harriet, 191, 195

Doerr, John, 123

domains, 111–14

Drexler, K. Eric, 120–21, 176

Durband, Alan, 241

Dylan, Bob, 68, 118–20, 131, 153

dynamics, creative, 70–76, 125–26

dyslexia, 226–27

Dyson, Freeman, 117

ecology, 253–54

Edelman, Marian Wright, 177–78, 179

education system, 12–15

assessment in, 235, 236–37, 249–50

“back to basics,” 15–16

in Britain, 171–72

conformity in, 230–35

cram schools, 234–35

creativity drained by, 16

curriculum in, 235–36, 247–48

elemental, 247–50

higher education, 232–34

and intelligence, 36, 38–42

lack of interest in, 228–30

pedagogy, 235

practical training in, 39–40

quality assurance in, 249–50

reforming, 235–38

Reggio approach, 241–43

teaching, 12, 74, 107, 175–76, 237–38, 249

transforming, 238–46

Egan, Nick, 74–75

Einstein, Albert, 49–50, 202, 251

Element, 8

barriers to finding, 9, 132

groupthink vs., 142–46

personal constraints, 132–36

social barriers, 137–42

what it is, 21–22

and the zone, 86–90

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, Self-Reliance, 184

encouragement, 181–82

enjoyment, elements of, 92

Enlightenment, 37

Epicurus, 121

epiphany stories, 8, 74

eugenics movement, 39, 40, 41

Evans, Bill, 124, 125

evidence, scientific, 37

expectations, 161

fandom, 127–29

fast-food model, 249–50

fear of disapproval, 137–42

Feynman, Richard, 69–70, 71, 72, 73, 75, 76, 77, 120, 121

fields, 111–14, 117

Fischbach, Gerald, 201

fish, swarming, 146–47, 154

Fleetwood, Mick, 27–30, 48, 102

Fleetwood, Sally, 28

Fleetwood, Susan, 28

Fleetwood Mac, 27, 29

flow, 92, 93

Fordyce, Michael, 223

Franklin, Benjamin, 196

Freed, Alan, 112

Frost, Robert, 183

Fuller, R. Buckminster, 49

Fury, Peggy, 104, 111, 174

Gardner, Howard, 43

Gerver, Richard, 244–45

Geurts, Kathryn Linn, Culture and the Senses, 31

Gielgud, Sir John, 165

Gilmour, David, 217

Goleman, Daniel, 44

Goodwin, Doris Kearns, Team of Rivals, 126–27

Grace Living Center, Tulsa, 204–5

Graham, Benjamin, 176, 179

Grangeton, England, 244–46

Gray Panthers, 192

Great Groups, 123–24

Green, Peter, 29

Greenfield, Susan, 200

Groening, Matt, 4–6, 22, 116

groupthink, 142–46

growth and development, 257–58

Guthrie, Woody, 119–20, 131

Hadid, Zaha, 153–54, 155

Halberstam, David, 212–13

Hanna, Andrea, 221–22

happiness, 223

Harkness, Timandra, 100

Harris, Judith Rich, 142–46

Harrison, George, 10, 67–69, 77, 125, 127, 228

Harvard Mentoring Project, 178

Harvey, Jerry B., 144–45

Hendrickson, Susan, 211–12

Hermann Brain Dominance Instrument (HBDI), 99

heroes, 185–86

Hewlett, Bill, 123

Hollywood filmmaking, 121–22

Hoodwatch Movement Organization, 95

Hoover, Elizabeth, 5

Hopper, Dennis, 122

Horowitz, Vladimir, 197

Hosseini, Khaled, The Kite Runner, 216–17

Hubble telescope, 59, 64, 66, 67

Huffington, Arianna Stasinopoulos, 139–42, 153

Hunt, Albert, 240

imagination, 57–59, 66, 70, 81

Industrial Revolution, 256

insects, swarms of, 146–47, 154

insight, 76–77

intelligence, 35–42

artificial, 45, 120

and the brain, 44

and creativity, 67, 70

distinctiveness of, 50–51

dynamic, 49–50, 70–76

features of, 43, 46–49

IQ, 38–41, 43

measurement of, 38–42, 43

swarm, 147

varieties of, 42–46

International Telementor Program, 185

intuition, 31, 33, 161

Isaacson, Walter, 50

James, William, 82

Janis, Irving, 143

Jay-Z (Carter), 143

Jeffers, Susan, 187–90, 206

Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway^®, 136, 187, 190

Jenks school district, Tulsa, 203–6

Johnson, Craig, 122

Jones, James Earl, 183–84

Katzman, John, 42

Kelly, Wynton, 124

kinesthetic sense (proprioception), 32–33

Kuhn, Maggie, 192, 195

language, 149–50, 199–200

Laurance, Ewa, 83–86, 90, 96, 102, 116

Leadbeater, Charles, 210–11

Lemaire, Alexis, 45–46

Lennon, John, 5, 10, 125, 182–83

Leonard, Dorothy, 122

life-changing connections, 174–79

life expectancy, 192–93

Lincoln, Abraham, 126–27

Lipski, Don, 105–8, 116, 248

Liverpool Institute for the Performing Arts (LIPA), 10, 183

Lloyd Webber, Andrew, 3

Lodge, Henry, 197

logic, 37, 77

Loren, Sophia, 206

Lovelace, Richard, 81–82

Lowenstein, Roger, 176

luck, 25, 156–68

and aptitude, 159

and attitude, 156, 159, 160–68

bad, turned to good, 161

and blindness, 156–59

and chance, 160, 161

characterizations of, 161

and perception, 160, 161

Lynne, Gillian, 1–4, 14, 22, 102, 174, 179

Lynne, Jeff, 68

Magellanic Cloud, 65

Malaguzzi, Loris, 242

poem, 242–43

Mandela, Nelson, 185–86

Margaret Beavan School, 169

Mary Columba, Sister, 175–76 Maslow, Abraham, 223

Mayall, John, 29

McCartney, Paul, 10–11, 113, 125, 182–83, 217, 227–28, 240–41

McVie, John, 29

meditation, 161, 198, 202

Megara school, 121

memory, 79

mentors, 174–85, 249

encouragement, 181–82 facilitating, 182

life-changing connections, 174–79

as personal heroes, 185–86

recognition, 179–81

roles of, 179–85

stretching, 183–84

two-way street of, 184–85

Michelangelo, 260

Michelin model, 250

Miller, Paul, 210–11

mind mapping, 97

Minsky, Marvin, 120, 176

Moses, Gerard, 87

Moses, Grandma, 196

Murray, Chick, 131

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), 98–99

Neils, David, 185

nervous system, 44

neurogenesis, 202

New Christy Minstrels, 112

Newman, Paul, 202

Newton, Sir Isaac, 251

No Child Left Behind, 14–15, 236–37

O’Keeffe, Georgia, 202

Olivier, Sir Laurence, 165

Olympic Games, 34, 212–13

opportunity, 22, 25–26, 161, 190–98

Orbison, Roy, 68

Ostin, Mo, 68

Packard, David, 123

pain (nociception), 32

Park, Denise, 151–52

Parks, Gordon, 46–48, 194

Parks, Rosa, 186

passion, 22, 24

peer groups, 142–46

Pei, I. M., 202

perception, 160, 161

Peripatetic school, 121

personal circles of constraint, 132–36

personality types, 98–99

perspective, 66

Peterson, Suzanne, 218–20

physical disabilities, 132–36, 169–71

physical proximity, 154

Picasso, Pablo, 114

Pilcher, Helen, 108–10

Pittman, Wiley, 176–77, 179

planets, sizes of, 59–66

Plato, 36, 121

Polanyi, Michael, 117

polio epidemics, 162–64

population growth, 18–19, 256

positive psychology, 223

Potts, Paul, 191–92

Presley, Elvis, 11

Pro-Am Revolution, 210–11

Public/Private Ventures, 178

Pythagorean brotherhood, 121

Rapaille, Clotaire, 152

Ray, Brian, 112–13

Ray, Jean, 112

recognition, 179–81

Reese, Pee Wee, 182

reframe, ability to, 162

revelation, 8

Richard, Cliff, 183

Rindt, Jochen, 91

Ringgold, Faith, 52–55, 71, 72

Robbins, Anthony, 160, 162, 185

Robinson, Ian, 163

Robinson, Jackie, 182

Robinson, James, 12, 18

Robinson, Kate, 12, 23, 96–97

Robinson, Neil, 129

Robinson, Terry, 19, 149, 174–76, 238–40

Room to Read, 218

Russell, Bertrand, 59, 66

Ryan, Meg, 103–5, 116, 174

Salk, Jonas, 259

Samuelson, Paul, 7, 22

Sassoon, Vidal, 164–67

SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test), 41–42

schools, see education system

scientific method, 37

Scorsese, Martin, 122

Scott, Sir Ridley, 72–73, 194–95

Seles, Monica, 92, 96

self-discovery, 105–10

self-fulfilling prophecies, 161

self-reliance, 184

Seligman, Martin, 223

Seward, William H., 126

Seymour, Tim, 215

Shakespeare, William, Hamlet, 80–81

Silicon Valley, 122–23

size, and imagination, 59–66

social barriers, 137–42

social identity theory, 127

social movements, 152

Socrates’ circle, 121

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr, 224

Sorkin, Aaron, 87–89

Stanford-Binet test, 39

Stanton, Edwin M., 126

Starr, Ringo, 10, 125

Stasinopoulos, Arianna (Huffington), 139–42, 153

sterilization laws, 40

Sternberg, Robert, 43

Store, Ron, 194

Strafford, Charles, 170–71, 172, 173, 174, 179

stretching, 183–84

Swap, Walter, 122

swarming behavior, 146–47, 154

swimming against the tide, 152–55

synergy, 123–27, 258

synesthesia, 33

Tajfel, Henri, 127

taking things for granted, 30–35

Tandy, Jessica, 197

Tao, Terence, 100–102

Taylor, Mick, 29

teachers, inspirational, 12, 74, 107, 175–76

technology, pace of change in, 17–20

temperature (thermoception), 32

Terman, Lewis, 39

thinking outside the box, 97–100

Thurber, James, 5

time, 90–91

Toffler, Alvin, Future Shock, 19

transformation, 216–18

Traveling Wilburys, 69, 71, 72, 73, 75–76, 80

tribe, finding your, 103–31

affiliation with, 127

as circle of influence, 120–23

crowd vs., 127–29

distinctiveness of, 126

diversity in, 121, 125

domains and fields, 111–14

dynamics of, 125–26

fandom, 127–29

inspiration of, 118–20

physical proximity in, 154

self-discovery in, 105–10

spectators, 130–31

synergy of, 123–27

Trop, Gabriel, 207–9

Turner, John, 127

vestibular sense (equilibrioception), 32

visual perception, 150–51

Waronker, Lenny, 68

Waters, Miles, 217

Wheeler, John, 117

Williams, Dudley, 115

Wilson, John, 156–59

Winwood, Steve, 217

Wiseman, Richard, 162

The Luck Factor, 161

Wood, Christopher “Tiff,” 212 Wood, John, 217–18

Wright, Wilbur, 91–92

Yeats, W. B., 175

Zdanivsky, Brad, 167–68

Zinn, Howard, 177–78, 179

zone:

authenticity in, 90–94

being in, 86–90

being yourself in, 96–97

energy in, 94–96

freedom in, 90

meta-state of, 91

outside the box, 97–100

time in, 90–91