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.