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1. John F. Kennedy, address at Rice University on space exploration, September 12, 1962.
1. “How Mothers Field 288 Questions a Day,” Daily Mail, March 28, 2013.
2. “Neil deGrasse Tyson: Kids Are Born Scientists,” YouTube video, posted by Monstersnatch, November 22, 2012, at 2:14.
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1. John O’Leary, “Not Impossible Labs,” Live Inspired with John O’Leary (podcast), episode 94, August 9, 2018.
2. Alison Gopnik, The Philosophical Baby: What Children’s Minds Tell Us About Truth, Love, and the Meaning of Life (New York: Picador, 2009), 122.
3. O’Leary, “Not Impossible Labs.”
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2. Jamie Ducharme, “A Lot of Americans Are More Anxious Than They Were Last Year, a New Poll Says,” Time, March 14, 2018.
3. Reuters, “Finland Ranks World’s Happiest Country as U.S. Discontent Grows Despite More Riches: UN Report,” South China Morning Post, March 14, 2018.
1. City Slickers, directed by Ron Underwood, screenplay by Lowell Gantz and Babaloo Mandel (Castle Rock Entertainment, 1991).
1. Ali Binazir, “What Are the Chances You Would Be Born,” Harvard Law Blogs, June 15, 2011.
2. Huston Smith, Cleansing the Doors of Perception (New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher, 2000), 76.
1. John O’Leary, “From Juvie to Jail to Harvard,” Live Inspired with John O’Leary (podcast), episode 95, August 26, 2018.
2. Ibid.
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4. K. L. Rand, A. D. Martin, and A. Shea, “Hope, but Not Optimism, Predicts Academic Performance of Law Students Beyond Previous Academic Achievement,” Journal of Research in Personality 45 (2011): 683–686.
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2. Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence (New York: Penguin Books, 2018), 16.
1. George Loewenstein, “Anticipating the Valuation of Delayed Consumption,” Economic Journal 97, no. 387 (September 1987): 666–684.
1. Josh Moody, “Where the Top Fortune 500 CEOs Attended College,” US News and World Report, June 11, 2019.
1. Daniel Levitin, The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload (New York: Dutton, 2015), 98.
2. Larry Kim, “Multitasking Is Killing Your Brain,” Inc., July 15, 2015.
3. Alex Cocotas, “88% of U.S. Consumers Use Mobile as Second Screen While Watching TV,” Business Insider, May 20, 2013.
1. Ed O’Boyle and Annamarie Mann, “American Workplace Changing at Dizzying Pace,” Gallup Workplace, February 15, 2017, www.gallup.com/workplace/236282/american-workplace-changing-dizzying-pace.aspx.
2. Martin Luther King Jr., “The Three Dimensions of a Complete Life,” sermon delivered at the Unitarian Church of Germantown, kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/three-dimensions-complete-life-sermon-delivered-unitarian-church-germantown.
3. Charles Duhigg, “Wealthy, Successful and Miserable,” New York Times Magazine, February 24, 2019, 26.
4. Nathan Zeldes, “ ‘Quiet Time’ and ‘No Email Day’ Pilot Data Is In!,” Intel IT Peer Network, June 14, 2008, itpeernetwork.intel.com/quiet-time-and-no-email-day-pilot-data-is-in/#gs.fgis24.
5. Adam Grant, “When Work Takes Over Your Life,” Work Life with Adam Grant (podcast), April 17, 2018.
1. Sara Burrows, “Texas School Beats ADHD by Tripling Recess Time,” Return to Now (blog), November 21, 2017.
2. Ibid.
3. David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World (New York: Riverhead Books, 2019).
4. Steven Kotler, “Flow States and Creativity,” Psychology Today, February 25, 2014.
5. Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005), 609.
6. Lily Rothman, “Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin Looks to Past Leaders for Lessons on the Present,” Time, September 17, 2018, 12–13.
1. Florence Williams, The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative (New York: W. W. Norton, 2017), 49.
2. Oliver Sacks, Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales (London: Picador, 2019).
3. Williams, The Nature Fix, 23.
4. Jamie Ducharme, “Spending Just 20 Minutes in a Park Makes You Happier,” Time, February 28, 2019.
5. Tony Schwartz, “Relax! You’ll Be More Productive,” New York Times, February 10, 2013.
6. Tony Schwartz, The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working: The Four Forgotten Needs That Energize Great Performance (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010).
7. Judith Shulevitz, “Bring Back the Sabbath,” New York Times Magazine, February 3, 2003. www.nytimes.com/2003/03/02/magazine/bring-back-the-sabbath.html.
8. Patricia Hampl, “Baby Boomers Reach the End of Their To-Do List,” New York Times, April 14, 2018.
1. Mitch Albom, “Chika’s Story,” Detroit Free Press, June 11, 2017.
2. Richard Harris, “The Moment That Changed Mitch Albom’s Life,” Forbes, March 29, 2017.
1. William James, The Principles of Psychology (New York: Henry Holt, 1890), 260.
1. Robert Firestone, Lisa A. Firestone, and Joyce Catlett, The Self Under Siege: A Therapeutic Model for Differentiation (New York and London: Routledge, 2013), 206.
2. Nicholas A. Christakis and James H. Fowler, “Dynamic Spread of Happiness in a Large Social Network,” British Medical Journal, December 5, 2008.
3. Daniel Goleman, “The Experience of Touch,” New York Times, February 2, 1988.
4. Benedict Carey, “Evidence That Little Touches Do Mean So Much,” New York Times, February 22, 2010.
1. Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones of Happiness: Lessons from the World’s Happiest People (Washington, DC: National Geographic, 2017), 173.
2. Ibid.
1. John O’Leary, “Dare to Lead,” Live Inspired with John O’Leary (podcast), episode 103, October 11, 2018.
1. Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island (Boston: Shambhala, 2005), 177.
2. John O’Leary, “Demystifying Disabilities,” Live Inspired with John O’Leary (podcast), episode 85, June 7, 2018.
3. John Zarocostas, “Disabled Still Face Hurdles in Job Market,” Washington Times, December 4, 2005.
4. Melonyce McAfee, “Advocate for Disabled Workers Is 2017 CNN Hero of the Year,” CNN, March 8, 2018.
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid.
7. Meik Wiking, The Little Book of Lykke: Secrets of the World’s Happiest People (New York: William Morrow, 2017), 201.
1. Leslie Kendall Dye, “Dear Strangers, Please Stop Telling Me My Active Daughter Might Get Hurt,” Washington Post, November 1, 2016.
2. Lauren Knight, “5 Ways to Let a Little More Risk into Your Child’s Day,” Washington Post, January 16, 2015.
3. Peter Gray, “Risky Play: Why Children Love It and Need It,” Psychology Today, April 7, 2014.
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2. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Elsie Venner: A Romance of Destiny (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1861), 10.
1. Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (New York: Random House, 1994), 6.