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