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Mozart labored: Robert W. Weisberg, “Creativity and Knowledge.” In Robert J. Sternberg (ed.), Handbook of Creativity (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999).
Back on earth, we measured: This work was done in collaboration with Lisa Sorich Blackwell and Kali Trzesniewski. Thanks also to Nancy Kim for collecting quotes from the students.
George Danzig was a graduate student: Told by George Danzig in Cynthia Kersey, Unstoppable (Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, 1998).
John Holt, the great educator: John Holt, How Children Fail (New York: Addison Wesley, 1964/1982), 14.
The College Transition: This work was done with Heidi Grant.
In her book Gifted Children: Ellen Winner, Gifted Children: Myths and Realities (New York: Basic Books, 1996).
Michael’s mother reports: Ibid., 21.
Garfield High School: Jay Matthews, Escalante: The Best Teacher in America (New York: Henry Holt, 1998).
Marva Collins: Marva Collins and Civia Tamarkin, Marva Collins’ Way: Returning to Excellence in Education (Los Angeles: Jeremy Tarcher, 1982/1990).
He saw four-year-olds: Ibid., 160.
As the three- and four-years-olds: Marva Collins, “Ordinary” Children, Extraordinary Teachers (Charlottesville, VA: Hampton Roads Publishing, 1992), 4.
Benjamin Bloom: Benjamin S. Bloom, Developing Talent in Young People (New York: Ballantine Books, 1985).
Bloom concludes: Ibid., 4.
Falko Rheinberg, a researcher in Germany: Falko Rheinberg, Leistungsbewertung und Lernmotivation [Achievement Evaluation and Motivation to Learn] (Göttingen: Hogrefe, 1980), 87, 116. Also reported at the conference of the American Educational Research Association, Seattle, April 2001.
“Come on, peach”: Collins and Tamarkin, Marva Collins’ Way, 19.
On the opposite page are the before-and-after: Betty Edwards, The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (New York: Tarcher/Putnam, 1979/1999), 18–20.
Jackson Pollock: Elizabeth Frank, Pollock (New York: Abbeville Press, 1983); Evelyn Toynton, “A Little Here, A Little There,” The New York Times Book Review, January 31, 1999.
Twyla Tharp: The Creative Habit (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003).
“There are no ‘natural’ geniuses”: Ibid., 7.
The Danger of Praise: This work was conducted with Claudia Mueller and with Melissa Kamins.
Adam Guettel has been called: Jesse Green, “A Complicated Gift,” The New York Times Magazine, July, 6, 2003.
Research by Claude Steele and Joshua Aronson: Claude M. Steele and Joshua Aronson, “Stereotype Threat and the Intellectual Test Performance of African-Americans,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 68 (1995), 797–811.
We asked African American students: This research was done with Bonita London.
To find out how this happens: This work was done with Catherine Good and Aneeta Rattan, and is being supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation.
Many females have a problem not only with: This has been studied by Tomi-Ann Roberts and Susan Nolen-Hoeksema.
When we observed in grade school: This research was conducted with William Davidson, Sharon Nelson, and Bradley Enna.
Frances Conley: Frances K. Conley, Walking Out on the Boys (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1999).
“Is a honey,” she wondered: Ibid., 65.
Julie Lynch, a budding techie: Michael J. Ybarra, “Why Won’t Women Write Code?” Sky, December 1999.
The Polgar family: Carlin Flora, “The Grandmaster Experiment,” Psychology Today, August 2005.
CHAPTER 4. SPORTS: THE MINDSET OF A CHAMPION
As Michael Lewis tells us: Michael Lewis, Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game (New York: Norton, 2003).
“It wasn’t merely”: Ibid., 9.
As one scout said: Ibid., 48.
“He had no concept of failure”: Ibid., 46.
Beane continues, “I started to get”: Ibid., 47.
Muhammad Ali failed these measurements: Felix Dennis and Don Atyeo, Muhammad Ali: The Glory Years (New York: Hyperion, 2003).
He pulled back his torso: Ibid., 14.
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