March 2010
Intermediate to advanced
272 pages
5h 56m
English
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Contents
| COPYRIGHT | |
| ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | |
| INTRODUCTION: | Doing What Can’t Be DoneHoward Armstrong |
| ONE: | Through the Eye of an IconoclastDale Chihuly, Paul Lauterbur, Nolan Bushnell |
| TWO: | From Perception to ImaginationWalt Disney, Florence Nightingale,Branch Rickey, Kary Mullis |
| THREE: | Fear—The Inhibitor of ActionJackie Robinson, Dixie Chicks,Computer Associates, Rite-Solutions |
| FOUR: | How Fear Distorts PerceptionNASA, Richard Feynman,Solomon Asch, Martin Luther King Jr. |
| FIVE: | Why the Fear of Failure Makes People Risk AverseDavid Dreman, Bill Miller, Henry Ford |
| SIX: | Brain Circuits for Social NetworkingPablo Picasso, Vincent van Gogh,Stanley Milgram, Ray Kroc,Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linus Torvalds,Warren Buffett |
| SEVEN: | Private Spaceflight—A ... |
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