24 As they changed from children: Ibid., 68.
25 Rafe Esquith teaches Los Angeles: Rafe Esquith, There Are No Shortcuts (New York: Pantheon, 2003).
26 DeLay’s husband always teased her: Sand, Teaching Genius, 23.
27 Her mentor and fellow teacher: Ibid., 54.
28 “I think it’s too easy”: Ibid., 70.
29 Itzhak Perlman was her student: Ibid., 201.
30 “I think she has something special”: Ibid., 85.
31 Yet she established on Day One: Collins and Tamarkin, Marva Collins’ Way, 19.
32 When Benjamin Bloom studied his 120: Benjamin S. Bloom, Developing Talent in Young People (New York: Ballantine Books, 1985).
33 When Collins expanded her school: Collins, “Ordinary” Children.
34 Esquith bemoans the lowering of standards: Esquith, There Are No Shortcuts, 53.
35 “That is part of Miss DeLay’s”: Sand, Teaching Genius, 219.
36 “I know which child will handle”: Esquith, There Are No Shortcuts, 40.
37 Collins echoes that idea: Collins and Tamarkin, Marva Collins’ Way, 21.
38 One student was sure he couldn’t: Sand, Teaching Genius, 64.
39 Another student was intimidated: Ibid., 114.
40 As Marva Collins said to a boy: Collins and Tamarkin, Marva Collins’ Way, 208.
41 Here is a shortened version: Ibid., 85–88.
42 “It’s sort of like Socrates says”: Ibid., 159.
43 For a class assignment, he wrote: Ibid., 165.
44 And she let her students know: Ibid., 87.
45 Michael Lewis, in The New York Times: Michael Lewis, “Coach Fitz’s Management Theory,” The New York Times Magazine, March 28, 2004.
46 Bobby Knight, the famous and controversial: Bob Knight with Bob Hammel, Knight: My Story (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2002); Steve Alford with John Garrity, Playing for Knight (New York: Fireside/Simon & Schuster, 1989); John Feinstein, A Season on the Brink: A Year with Bobby Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers (New York: Fireside/Simon & Schuster, 1987).
47 John Feinstein, author of Season: Feinstein, Season on the Brink, 3.
48 In Daryl Thomas, Feinstein says: Ibid., 3–4.
49 “You know what you are Daryl?”: Ibid., 7.
50 An assistant coach had given this advice: Ibid., 4.
51 “What I like best about this team”: Ibid., 25.
52 Steve Alford, who went on: Alford, Playing for Knight, 101.
53 “The atmosphere was poisonous”: Ibid., 169.
54 Says Alford, “Coach’s Holy Grail”: Ibid., 63.
55 In the “season on the brink”: Feinstein, Season on the Brink, xi.
56 “You know there were times”: Ibid., 8–9.
57 Coach John Wooden produced: John Wooden with Jack Tobin, They Call Me Coach (Waco, TX: Word Books, 1972); John Wooden with Steve Jamison, Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court (Lincolnwood, IL: Contemporary Books, 1997).
58 “You have to apply yourself”: Wooden, Wooden, 11.
59 “Did I win? Did I lose?”: Ibid., 56.
60 If so, he says: Ibid., 55.
61 If the players were coasting: Ibid., 119.
62 “I looked at each one”: Ibid., 95.
63 “Other fellows who played”: Ibid., 67.
64 But he promised him: Ibid., 141–142.
65 Bill Walton, Hall of Famer: Ibid., ix.
66 Denny Crum, successful coach: Ibid., xii.
67 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Hall of Famer: Ibid., xiii.
68 It was the moment of victory: Wooden, They Call Me Coach, 9–10.
69 “There are coaches out there”: Wooden, Wooden, 117.
70 Pat Summitt is the coach: Pat Summitt with Sally Jenkins, Reach for the Summit (New York: Broadway Books, 1998).
71 Wooden calls it being “infected”: Wooden, Wooden.
72 Pat Riley, former coach: Pat Riley, The Winner Within (New York: Putnam, 1993).
73 Summitt explains, “Success lulls you”: Summitt, Reach for the Summit, 237.
74 The North Carolina coach: Ibid., 5.
75 “Get your heads up”: Ibid., 6.
76 “You never stay the same”: Tyler Kepner, “The Complete Package: Why A-Rod Is the Best in Business, Even While Learning a New Position,” The New York Times, April 4, 2004.
CHAPTER 8. CHANGING MINDSETS 1 In the 1960s, psychiatrist Aaron Beck: Aaron T. Beck, “Thinking and Depression: Idiosyncratic Content and Cognitive Distortions,” Archives of General Psychology 9 (1963), 325–333; Prisoners of Hate: The Cognitive Basis of Anger, Hostility, and Violence (New York: HarperCollins, 1999). (At about the same time, therapist Albert Ellis was discovering a similar thing: that beliefs are the key to how people feel.)
2 In several studies, we probed: This work was done with Ying-yi Hong, C. Y. Chiu, and Russell Sacks.
3 It does not confront the basic: However, see Jeffrey E. Young and Janet Klosko, Reinventing Your Life (New York: Plume/Penguin, 1994). Although Young and Klosko are working in a cognitive therapy tradition, a core assumption of their approach and one that they teach their clients is that people can change in very basic ways.
4 A Mindset Workshop: This workshop was developed with Lisa Sorich Blackwell with grants from the William T. Grant Foundation and the Spencer Foundation: L. S. Blackwell, C. S. Dweck, and K.
