the Weight Rooms of Paris, There Is a Chic New Fragrance: Sweat,” The New York Times, June
21, 2004. Seabiscuit: aura Hillenbrand, Seabiscuit: An American Legend (New York: Random
House, 2001). Equally moving is the parallel story: aura Hillenbrand, “A Sudden Illness,” The
New Yorker, July 7, 2003. Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg made her violin debut: adja
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”: alerno-Sonnenberg, Nadja, 49. “Everything I was going through”: bid.,
- Then, one day: bid., 50. There were few American women: yatt and Gottlieb, When Smart
People Fail, 25–27. “I don’t really understand”: bid., 27. “I often thought”: bid., 25. Billie
Jean King says: illie Jean King with Kim Chapin, Billie Jean (New York: Harper & Row,
1974). A lawyer spent seven years: yatt and Gottlieb, When Smart People Fail, 224. Can
everything about people be changed?: artin 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: oseph 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: ichard 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: lifton Brown, “An Education with Hard Courses,” The New York
Times, January 13, 2004. “I think I learned that I can”: lifton 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: aul Israel, Edison: A Life of Invention (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1998).
Yet Darwin’s masterwork: oward E. Gruber, Darwin on Man: A Psychological Study of
Scientific Creativity, 2nd ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981); Charles Darwin,
Autobiographies (Michael Neve and Sharon Messenger, eds.) (New York: Penguin Books,
1903/2002). Mozart labored: obert W. Weisberg, “Creativity and Knowledge.” In Robert J.
Sternberg (ed.), Handbook of Creativity (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999). Back
on earth, we measured: his 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: old by George Danzig in Cynthia Kersey, Unstoppable
(Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, 1998). John Holt, the great educator: ohn Holt, How Children
Fail (New York: Addison Wesley, 1964/1982), 14. The College Transition: his work was done
with Heidi Grant. In her book Gifted Children: llen Winner, Gifted Children: Myths and
Realities (New York: Basic Books, 1996). Michael’s mother reports: bid., 21. Garfield High
School: ay Matthews, Escalante: The Best Teacher in America (New York: Henry Holt, 1998).
Marva Collins: arva Collins and Civia Tamarkin, Marva Collins’ Way: Returning to Excellence
in Education (Los Angeles: Jeremy Tarcher, 1982/1990). He saw four-year-olds: bid., 160. As
the three- and four-years-olds: arva Collins, “Ordinary” Children, Extraordinary Teachers
(Charlottesville, VA: Hampton Roads Publishing, 1992), 4. Benjamin Bloom: enjamin S.
Bloom, Developing Talent in Young People (New York: Ballantine Books, 1985). Bloom
concludes: bid., 4. Falko Rheinberg, a researcher in Germany: alko 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”: ollins and
Tamarkin, Marva Collins’ Way, 19. On the opposite page are the before-and-after: etty