by Andrew Lynn
apostles 93, 96
Bachar, John 4, 102–8
Baeyer, Adolf von 75–7
batsmen 13, 15–17
behaviour 30, 60, 72, 75, 79, 81–3, 85, 142, 151–2
belief 18, 27, 36, 111, 134–6, 207
Berthollet 75–6
Bilalic, Meriam 168–9, 171
Blake, William 6, 41–3; The Marriage of Heaven and Hell 41
blindness 18–19
boredom 98, 150–2
boundaries 120, 185
bowlers 13–14, 17; swing 14–15
boxing 26–9
Buddhism 11, 65–6, 106, 110, 119, 121
Cambridge 3, 73
Canada 187–8, 193, 204–5, 212–13
career 73–4, 162, 165, 176–8, 180, 191, 200, 202, 205, 211, 213–15; curves 180; lines 195–6; paths 197; progression 213
CDS protection 132, 141–2, 148
chameleon effect, the 69–70, 72
choice 6, 28, 50, 52–4, 56–7, 59, 64, 66, 71, 111, 125, 152, 218
climbing 7, 99–106, 108
Cognitive: advantage 5, 7, 12, 21; complexity 4, 7, 137, 139–41, 143, 145–7; depletion 53; performance 65; scientists 30, 168; tests 159; transformation 57–8, 66
compromise 33, 56, 93
computers 19, 84, 156–7, 191
concentration 35, 99–101, 167, 220
concentration camps 36–7
confidence 105, 214; self-confidence 25
consciousness 98, 107, 110; self-consciousness 101, 112
contagion 72, 83, 85
contrarianism 129, 139, 141, 143, 147, 152
conversation 11, 34, 60, 80, 90, 159
Coué, Emile 28, 36
creativity 4, 6, 49, 61–2, 85–6, 112, 133, 175, 180; Darwinian 44, 50
cricket 12–14
Csíkszentmihályi, Mihály 97–101, 105, 110, 121
cumulative advantage 5, 8, 197–203, 210–11, 213–16, 220
D’Amato, Cus 26–9
Darwinism 6, 19, 44, 48, 50
Da Vinci, Leonardo 93, 179–80; The Last Supper 93–6
decision fatigue 53–4
Devi, Shakuntala 155–9, 172–3
Devil, the/Satan 41–2
diet 59, 70–1
Dostoevsky, Fedor 6, 32, 34; Idiot, The 6, 32
Eckstein, Zvi 203–4, 206–7, 210
Einstellung effect, the 168, 170–2
Emei Mountain 113–18
eminence 7, 86–7, 133–6
emotions 26–7, 50–2, 107, 111, 218
energy 6, 41–3, 50, 52, 60, 65–6, 73, 109, 218, 220; inner 53–4; regulation of 6, 41
England 3, 73
environments 3, 18, 40, 69–70, 80, 82, 85, 203; psychic 79–85, 218, 221
Europe 32, 145, 194, 200, 204–5, 207
evil 10, 42, 150
experience 8, 10–11, 18–19, 36–7, 57, 97–8, 99–102, 105, 110, 119 –20, 152, 166–8, 175, 178, 181–2, 185, 214, 218
fatigue 27, 97; decision 53–4
fear 19, 26, 33, 38, 106
financial crisis 129, 148
First World War 143, 145
Fischer, Emil 74–6, 78
flow 34, 52, 63, 97–102, 105, 110, 121
focus 3, 7, 12, 26, 35, 53, 57, 71, 78, 99, 107, 109–10, 112–13, 119, 121, 130, 152, 160, 167, 217, 219, 221
folktales 5, 115
Foreman, George 5, 22–6
frame 5, 21, 24–7, 31, 40
freedom 66, 152, 218
free soloing 102, 104–5, 108–9; free soloists 4, 102, 105
friendship 71–2, 151–2
Gay-Lussac 75–7
generativity 4, 6, 8, 12, 40, 44, 49, 217
genius 8, 86, 133, 155, 158–9, 172
Gnosticism 10; Gnostic Christ/Christianity 2, 10
God 9–11, 33, 41–3, 150, 173
Goya 6, 87
Guevara, Che 137–9
Harvard University 70, 123–9, 149, 200; Harvard bull 123–9
heaven 41
hell 41–2
Hemingway, Ernest 59, 180
Hesse, Herman 20–1
holistics 4–5
identity 31, 166
imagination 6, 28, 36, 68, 129
immortality 115–20
impairments 50–2
independence 2, 175, 221
India 2, 114, 155
inhibition 6, 50
inner resource 6, 50, 218
inner state 5, 9, 36, 39, 218, 220
intellect 7, 123
intelligence 33; tests 83
IQ 56, 152
Jensen, Arthur 155–7, 159, 173
Jesus Christ 93–4
Jewish people, the 8, 200, 203–10, 216
Judas 94, 96
Kekulé 75–6
Kierkegaard, Søren 7, 150–1
Kinshasa 22, 25
knowledge 1–2, 5, 30–1, 33, 51, 78, 123–4, 128–9, 179
Krebs, Sir Hans 73–8, 87
Kun, Jiang 188–9
L, Alfred 39
Lahde, Andrew 148–9, 153
Lavoisier 76
leaders 7, 89, 133, 137, 139–40, 212, 219
Levi, Primo 36–8
Liebig 75–7
life span 5, 7, 120, 160, 164–5, 175
lineage 75–6; scientific 4, 76–7
literature 3, 5, 49, 88, 175, 204; Responsa 206
Long, John 105–6
Maar, Dora 63–4
Mailer, Norman 25–6
Metzger, Mr. 123–9
Michelangelo 8, 96
Milton, John 7, 88
Monotonic 45; non-monotonic 46
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus 8, 158, 182
Müller, Sean 14, 17
Muselmänner, the 38–9
Myshkin, Prince 33–4
nafs 10–11
National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the 194, 214, 216
nature 4, 7, 20–1, 39, 41, 56, 71, 76, 126, 174, 184, 194, 204; of expertise 168–72; of genius 155–60
night-moths 20–1
Nobel Prize 73–5, 202, 204
obesity 70–2
Olivier, Fernande 61, 63
opportunity 85, 151, 189, 193, 198, 201–2, 215–17
outcomes 8–9, 20, 30, 36–7, 52, 55, 107, 110, 129, 138–9, 166, 171, 200, 206, 216–17
Paris 44, 61–2
Paulson, John 129–33, 141–3, 147–9, 153; Paulson & Co. 130–1
perception 4, 12, 18–19, 21, 36, 40, 79, 100, 151
performance 7–8, 30–1, 51–2, 56, 65, 83, 101–3, 107, 110–12, 157, 159–60, 163, 166–8, 174, 180, 187, 191–2, 203–4, 219–20
Persia 2, 9
philosophy 2, 3, 10, 18, 107, 238; Encyclopedia of Philosophy 134; History of Philosophy 134
Picasso, Pablo 4, 44–9, 61–4; Guernica 44–5, 48, 61, 64
practice 44, 51, 129, 172, 182, 207, 210, 217–18, 220–1; deliberate 160, 166–8, 172, 180
pressure 110, 112–13, 146
priming 30, 80–2, 91
productivity 4, 160, 164–5, 175
psychology 26, 157, 168; of flow 97–102; psychologists 28, 57, 60, 69, 162
rations 38–9
relaxation 35–6, 100
Rembrandt 6, 88
representativeness 135–6
research 2–4, 21, 30–2, 45, 55–6, 66, 70–1, 73–4, 77, 79, 98, 107, 132, 139–41, 146, 153, 161, 164, 174, 178, 181–2, 201
responsibility 50, 56, 152, 158
revolution 140; revolutionaries 6, 137–40
Rowswell, Mark (‘Dashan’) 187–93, 211–15
Rumi 2, 11
Russia/USSR, the 32–3, 137, 143–4, 204
scholars 5, 14, 134, 146, 168
scholarships 164–5, 192, 211, 213
sciences 7, 51, 65–6, 104, 124–5, 164–5, 168, 195, 200
self-control 6, 51, 56–7, 66, 218
self-regulation 51, 64, 66
serendipity 8, 210, 221
Shakespeare, William 3, 89, 91, 158; Troilus a
nd Cressida 89–91
Simonton, Dean Keith 45–8, 133–6, 152–3, 175–6, 180–2, 185
society 4, 32–3, 37, 111, 124, 136, 143, 207
status quo 55–6, 129
Stein, Gertrude 61, 63
Suedfeld, Peter 143–4, 153
suppression 36, 50–2, 57, 113, 218
survival 19, 50
techniques 40, 107–8, 172, 179, 181
television 187, 211–14
temptation 33, 50, 56
ten-year rule, the 160–5, 178, 185, 197–9, 213, 220
trends 132, 181; line 131–2
trial-and-error 6, 48–9
Tyson, Mike 26–9
Ulysses 89–91
United Nations 144–5
United States 8, 25, 31, 52, 67–8, 70, 126, 137, 143–4, 146, 148–9, 156, 193–4, 196, 204–5, 210, 212
University of California: Berkeley 155, 157; Davis 133; Irvine 19
Van Gogh, Vincent 4, 7, 177–80, 183–6; Roots, The 7, 177, 183–4; Sorrow 7, 177, 183–4
Velázquez 6, 88
Vohs, Kathleen 52–3
Wall Street 130, 148
Warburg, Otto 74–6, 78
wellbeing 31, 40, 70
willpower 6, 36
Wood, Grant 68; American Gothic 67–8
Wordsworth, William 6, 88
xiangsheng (‘cross-talk’) 188–9, 211, 213
Yepanchins, the 32–3
Zaire 5, 25
Zoroastrianism 9; Zoroastrians 5, 10, 12
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