Introduction
Friedrich Nietzsche, as quoted in Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning, translated by Ilse Lache (Boston: Beacon Press, 1992).
Chapter 1
Avenue Q, music and lyrics by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx and book by Jeff Whitty.
Chapter 3
Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning.
Terry Fox, Terry Fox Foundation website, terryfox.org.
Chapter 4
Rainier Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet, translated by Stephen Mitchell (Malden, MA: Scriptor Books, 2001).
Mary Catherine Bateson, Composing a Life (New York: Grove Press, 2001).
Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death (New York: The Free Press, 1973).
Chapter 5
Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms (1929; reprint, New York: Scribner, 2014).
Viktor Frankl, Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything (Boston: Beacon Press, 2020).
Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning.
Chapter 6
George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman: A Comedy and Philosophy (1903; Project Gutenberg online edition, 2008).
Joseph Campbell with Bill Moyers, The Power of Myth (Milwaukee, WI: Anchor, 1991).
Chapter 7
Richard Leider, Calling Cards (Oakland, CA: Berrett-Koehler, 2015).
Chapter 8
Mihaly Csikszentmihaly, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (New York: Harper Perennial, 1990).
Vonnai Phair, “Seattle’s Tony Delivers Hopes to Give Customers More Than Food,” Seattle Times, March 1, 2024.
Chapter 9
Sonja Lyubomirsky, The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want (London: Penguin Books, 2007).
Shunryū Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind (Boulder, CO: Shambala, 2011).
David Levy, “No Time to Think,” Google Tech Talks, YouTube, www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHGcvj3JiGA, 2008.
Thomas Eriksen, Tyranny of the Moment: Fast and Slow Time in the Information Age (Chicago: Pluto Press, 2011).
Kevin Cashman, The Pause Principle: Step Back to Lead Forward (Oakland, CA: Berrett-Koehler, 2012).
Chapter 11
Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Long from the People Who’ve Lived the Longest (Washington, DC: National Geographic, 2009).
Joe Cavanaugh, Youth Frontiers, www.youthfrontiers.org, accessed 2024.
Chapter 12
Deepak Chopra and Leonard Mlodinow, War of the Worldviews: Where Science and Spirituality Meet—and Do Not (New York: Harmony/Rodale, 2012).
Stephen Jay Gould, Rock of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life (New York: Ballentine, 2002).
Mayo Clinic, “Spirituality in Healthcare Committee,” www.mayo.edu/spirituality, accessed 2024.
Majid Fotuhi, Boost Your Brain: The New Art and Science Behind Enhanced Brain Performance (New York: Harper One, 2003).
Patrick Hill and Nicholas Turiano, “Purpose in Life as a Predictor of Mortality across Adulthood,” Psychological Science 25, no. 7 (July 2014): 1482–1486.
David Bennett et al., “Overview and Findings from the Rush Memory and Aging Project,” Current Alzheimer Research 9, no. 6 (2012), www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3439198/.
Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning.