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That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick) (New York: Portfolio, 2007 [Kindle ebook]).
twenty-year mark: G. Cheadle (Brig. Gen. USAF [Ret.]), “Retention of USMA Graduates on Active Duty,” white paper for the USMA Association of Graduates, 2004.
A 2010 monograph; “institution that taught its cadets”: This monograph is one in a six-part series about officer development and retention: C. Wardynski et al., “Towards a U.S. Army Officer Corps Strategy for Success: Retaining Talent,” Strategic Studies Institute, 2010.
Ash Carter visited West Point: A. Tilghman, “At West Point, Millennial Cadets Say Rigid Military Career Tracks Are Outdated,” Military Times, March 26, 2016.
talent-based branching: D. Vergun, “Army Helping Cadets Match Talent to Branch Selection,” Army News Service, March 21, 2017.
American adults at large: You can compare your grit score to other adults at angeladuckworth/grit-scale/.
“Olympic athletes need to understand”: S. Cohen, “Sasha Cohen: An Olympian’s Guide to Retiring at 25,” New York Times, February 24, 2018.
A recent international Gallup survey: Gallup’s State of the Global Workplace report, 2017.
CHAPTER 7: FLIRTING WITH YOUR POSSIBLE SELVES
Frances Hesselbein grew up: Information about Hesselbein’s life comes from multiple interviews with her, as well as her books, and corroboration from others who know her. Her book, My Life in Leadership (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2011), was a particularly useful source and contains the “a doctor, a lawyer, an aviatrix” quote.
“any company in America”: E. Edersheim, “The Woman Drucker Said Was the Best CEO in America,” Management Matters Network, April 27, 2017.
“I would pick Frances”: J. A. Byrne, “Profiting from the Nonprofits,” Business Week, March 26, 1990.
Presidential Medal of Freedom: When President Bill Clinton presented the medal to Hesselbein, he made a humorous point of asking her to come “forward” to receive the award, as she did not like the use of hierarchical words like “up” and “down.”
Phil Knight: Good Morning America, April 26, 2016.
“wasn’t much for setting goals”: Phil Knight, Shoe Dog (New York: Scribner, 2016).
“Nor did I ever attend again”: These and other details of Darwin’s life can be found in The Autobiography of Charles Darwin. A free version with annotation can be found at Darwin-online.
recommended him for an unpaid position: There is a wealth of information, like the invitation from professor J. S. Henslow (in a letter on August 24, 1831), publicly available at the University of Cambridge’s Darwin Correspondence Project (darwinproject.ac).
“died a natural death”; “It seems ludicrous”; “If his father had given him any choice”: The Autobiography of Charles Darwin.
“I would never have to wonder”: Bio at michaelcrichton.
“end of history illusion”: J. Quoidbach, D. T. Gilbert, and T. D. Wilson, “The End of History Illusion,” Science 339, no. 6115 (2013): 96–98.
the results of ninety-two studies: B.W. Roberts et al., “Patterns of Mean-Level Change in Personality Traits Across the Life Course,” Psychological Bulletin 132, no. 1 (2006): 1-25. See also: B. W. Roberts and D. Mroczek, “Personality Trait Change in Adulthood,” Current Directions in Psychological Science 17, no. 1 (2009): 31–35. For a nice (and free) review of personality research intended for a broad audience, see M. B. Donnellan, “Personality Stability and Change,” in Noba Textbook Series: Psychology, ed. R. Biswas-Diener and E. Diener (Champaign, IL: DEF Publishers, 2018), nobaproject.
Psychologist Walter Mischel and his research team: W. Mischel, The Marshmallow Test (New York: Little, Brown, 2014 [Kindle ebook]).
Shoda has repeatedly made a point: Shoda used the occasion of winning a research award to make the point again. A June 2, 2015, press release from the University of Washington announcing the award noted, “While pleased by the honor, Shoda expressed concern about media coverage of the study over the years, and the incorrect notion that parents could predict their children’s fate by doing the study themselves.” He added that “the relationships we are finding are far from perfect. And there is a lot of room for change.”
“if-then signatures”; “The gist of such findings”: Y. Shoda et al., eds., Persons in Context: Building a Science of the Individual (New York: Guilford Press, 2007 [Kindle ebook]).
“If you are conscientious”: T. Rose, The End of Average: How We Succeed in a World That Values Sameness (New York: HarperOne, 2016 [Kindle ebook]).
a replication of the marshmallow test: T. W. Watts et al., “Revisiting the Marshmallow Test,” Psychological Science 29, no. 7 (2018): 1159–77.
Ibarra began; “We discover the possibilities”: H. Ibarra, Working Identity (Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, 2003).
“painless path to a new career”: P. Capell, “Taking the Painless Path to a New Career,” Wall Street Journal Europe, January 2, 2002.
Paul Graham . . . high school graduation speech: “What You’ll Wish You’d