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Yet she established on Day One: Collins and Tamarkin, Marva Collins’ Way, 19.

When Benjamin Bloom studied his 120: Benjamin S. Bloom, Developing Talent in Young People (New York: Ballantine Books, 1985).

When Collins expanded her school: Collins, “Ordinary” Children.

Esquith bemoans the lowering of standards: Esquith, There Are No Shortcuts, 53.

“That is part of Miss DeLay’s”: Sand, Teaching Genius, 219.

“I know which child will handle”: Esquith, There Are No Shortcuts, 40.

Collins echoes that idea: Collins and Tamarkin, Marva Collins’ Way, 21.

One student was sure he couldn’t: Sand, Teaching Genius, 64.

Another student was intimidated: Ibid., 114.

As Marva Collins said to a boy: Collins and Tamarkin, Marva Collins’ Way, 208.

Here is a shortened version: Ibid., 85–88.

“It’s sort of like Socrates says”: Ibid., 159.

For a class assignment, he wrote: Ibid., 165.

And she let her students know: Ibid., 87.

Michael Lewis, in The New York Times: Michael Lewis, “Coach Fitz’s Management Theory,” The New York Times Magazine, March 28, 2004.

Bobby Knight, the famous and controversial: Bob Knight with Bob Hammel, Knight: My Story (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2002); Steve Alford with John Garrity, Playing for Knight (New York: Fireside/Simon & Schuster, 1989); John Feinstein, A Season on the Brink: A Year with Bobby Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers (New York: Fireside/Simon & Schuster, 1987).

John Feinstein, author of Season: Feinstein, Season on the Brink, 3.

In Daryl Thomas, Feinstein says: Ibid., 3–4.

“You know what you are Daryl?”: Ibid., 7.

An assistant coach had given this advice: Ibid., 4.

“What I like best about this team”: Ibid., 25.

Steve Alford, who went on: Alford, Playing for Knight, 101.

“The atmosphere was poisonous”: Ibid., 169.

Says Alford, “Coach’s Holy Grail”: Ibid., 63.

In the “season on the brink”: Feinstein, Season on the Brink, xi.

“You know there were times”: Ibid., 8–9.

Coach John Wooden produced: John Wooden with Jack Tobin, They Call Me Coach (Waco, TX: Word Books, 1972); John Wooden with Steve Jamison, Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court (Lincolnwood, IL: Contemporary Books, 1997).

“You have to apply yourself”: Wooden, Wooden, 11.

“Did I win? Did I lose?”: Ibid., 56.

If so, he says: Ibid., 55.

If the players were coasting: Ibid., 119.

“I looked at each one”: Ibid., 95.

“Other fellows who played”: Ibid., 67.

But he promised him: Ibid., 141–142.

Bill Walton, Hall of Famer: Ibid., ix.

Denny Crum, successful coach: Ibid., xii.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Hall of Famer: Ibid., xiii.

It was the moment of victory: Wooden, They Call Me Coach, 9–10.

“There are coaches out there”: Wooden, Wooden, 117.

Pat Summitt is the coach: Pat Summitt with Sally Jenkins, Reach for the Summit (New York: Broadway Books, 1998).

Wooden calls it being “infected”: Wooden, Wooden.

Pat Riley, former coach: Pat Riley, The Winner Within (New York: Putnam, 1993).

Summitt explains, “Success lulls you”: Summitt, Reach for the Summit, 237.

The North Carolina coach: Ibid., 5.

“Get your heads up”: Ibid., 6.

“You never stay the same”: Tyler Kepner, “The Complete Package: Why A-Rod Is the Best in Business, Even While Learning a New Position,” The New York Times, April 4, 2004.

CHAPTER 8. CHANGING MINDSETS: A WORKSHOP

In the 1960s, psychiatrist Aaron Beck: Aaron T. Beck, “Thinking and Depression: Idiosyncratic Content and Cognitive Distortions,” Archives of General Psychology 9 (1963), 325–333; Prisoners of Hate: The Cognitive Basis of Anger, Hostility, and Violence (New York: HarperCollins, 1999). (At about the same time, therapist Albert Ellis was discovering a similar thing: that beliefs are the key to how people feel.)

In several studies, we probed: This work was done with Ying-yi Hong, C. Y. Chiu, and Russell Sacks.

It does not confront the basic: However, see Jeffrey E. Young and Janet Klosko, Reinventing Your Life (New York: Plume/Penguin, 1994). Although Young and Klosko are working in a cognitive therapy tradition, a core assumption of their approach and one