Mindset _ The New Psychology of Success - Carol S. Dweck [118]
“There is no such thing”: Chuck Yeager and Leo Janos, Yeager (New York: Bantam, 1985), 406. Also cited in McCall, High Flyers, 17.
As a New York Timesarticle: Amy Waldman, “Why Nobody Likes a Loser,” The New York Times, August 21, 1999.
“I would have been a different”: Clifton Brown, “Out of a Bunker, and Out of a Funk, Els Takes the Open,” The New York Times, July 22, 2002.
Each April when the skinny envelopes: Amy Dickinson, “Skinny Envelopes,” Time, April 3, 2000. (Thanks to Nellie Sabin for calling my attention to this article.)
Jim Marshall, former defensive player: Young, Great Failures of the Extremely Successful, 7–11.
Bernard Loiseau was one of the top: Elaine Ganley, “Top Chef’s Death Shocks France, Sparks Condemnation of Powerful Food Critics,” Associated Press, February 25, 2003.
In one study, seventh graders: This work was done with Lisa Sorich Blackwell and Kali Trzesniewski.
College students, after doing poorly: This work was with David Nussbaum.
Jim Collins tells: Collins, Good to Great, 80.
It was never his fault: McEnroe, You Cannot Be Serious.
John Wooden, the legendary: John Wooden with Steve Jamison, Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court (Lincolnwood, IL: Contemporary Books, 1997), 55.
When Enron, the energy giant: Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind, The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron (New York: Penguin Group, 2003), 414.
Jack Welch, the growth-minded CEO: Welch, Jack, 224.
As a psychologist and an educator: The work described was carried out with Allison Baer and Heidi Grant.
Malcolm Gladwell: Presented in an invited address at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Chicago, August 2002.
A report from researchers: “Report of the Steering Committee for the Women’s Initiative at Duke University,” August 2003.
Americans aren’t the only people: Jack Smith, “In the Weight Rooms of Paris, There Is a Chic New Fragrance: Sweat,” The New York Times, June 21, 2004.
Seabiscuit: Laura Hillenbrand, Seabiscuit: An American Legend (New York: Random House, 2001).
Equally moving is the parallel story: Laura Hillenbrand, “A Sudden Illness,” The New Yorker, July 7, 2003.
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg made her violin debut: Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Nadja, On My Way (New York: Crown, 1989); Barbara L. Sand, Teaching Genius: Dorothy DeLay and the Making of a Musician (Portland, OR: Amadeus Press, 2000).
“I was used to success”: Salerno-Sonnenberg, Nadja, 49.
“Everything I was going through”: Ibid., 50.
Then, one day: Ibid., 50.
There were few American women: Hyatt and Gottlieb, When Smart People Fail, 25–27.
“I don’t really understand”: Ibid., 27.
“I often thought”: Ibid., 25.
Billie Jean King says: Billie Jean King with Kim Chapin, Billie Jean (New York: Harper & Row, 1974).
A lawyer spent seven years: Hyatt and Gottlieb, When Smart People Fail, 224.
Can everything about people be changed?: Martin Seligman has written a very interesting book on this subject: What You Can Change . . . And What You Can’t (New York: Fawcett, 1993).
Joseph Martocchio conducted a study: Joseph J. Martocchio, “Effects of Conceptions of Ability on Anxiety, Self-Efficacy, and Learning in Training,” Journal of Applied Psychology 79 (1994), 819–825.
The same thing happened with Berkeley students: Richard Robins and Jennifer Pals, “Implicit Self-Theories in the Academic Domain: Implications for Goal Orientation, Attributions, Affect, and Self-Esteem Change,” Self and Identity 1 (2002), 313–336.
Michelle Wie is a teenage golfer: Clifton Brown, “An Education with Hard Courses,” The New York Times, January 13, 2004.
“I think I learned that I can”: Clifton Brown, “Wie Shows Power but Her Putter Let Her Down,” The New York Times, January 16, 2004.
CHAPTER 3. THE TRUTH ABOUT ABILITY AND ACCOMPLISHMENT
Edison was not a loner: Paul Israel, Edison: A Life of Invention (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1998).
Yet Darwin’s masterwork: Howard E. Gruber, Darwin on Man: A Psychological