PROLOGUE: NEVER TOO LATE
1. Bill Daley, “A Towering Legacy,” Chicago Tribune, August 15, 2012, https://www.chicagotribune.com/living/ct-xpm-2012-08-15-sc-food-0810-gaint-chaild-20120815-story.html
2. Todd Van Luling, “8 Things You Didn’t Know About the Artist Vincent Van Gogh,” HuffPost, updated December 6, 2017, https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/07/29/vincent-van-gogh-trivia_n_6181630.html.
3. See Benjamin Voigt, “Robert Frost 101,” Poetry Foundation, January 19, 2016, https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/70308/robert-frost-101; “Robert Frost Dies at 88; Kennedy Leads in Tribute,” special to the New York Times, On This Day, January 30, 1963, https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0326.html.
CHAPTER 1: AVOCADO BE GONE!
1. See Fred Rogers, You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor (New York: Penguin, 1995).
CHAPTER 2: GROW SLOW
1. Austin Carr, “The Most Important Leadership Quality for CEOs? Creativity,” Fast Company, May 18, 2010, https://www.fastcompany.com/1648943/most-important-leadership-quality-ceos-creativity.
2. Adam Grant, Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World (New York: Penguin, 2016), 253.
3. Grant, 164.
4. “Help & Support: Understanding the Bullying Cycle,” BulliesOut, accessed February 22, 2019, https://bulliesout.com/need-support/young-people/helping-someone-else/understanding-the-bullying-cycle/.
5. CDC National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention and Division of Adolescent and School Health, Youth Risk Behavior Survey: Data Summary & Trends Report 2007–2017, 31, https://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/data/yrbs/pdf/trendsreport.pdf. For more information on bullying, see https://www.stopbullying.gov/.
CHAPTER 4: SHOW UP ANYWAY
1. William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, act 1, sc. 1.
2. Layla Ilchi, “10 Unforgettable Marc Jacobs Runway Moments,” WWD, February 12, 2019, https://wwd.com/fashion-news/fashion-scoops/marc-jacobs-runway-fashion-week-moments-1202994209/.
3. Alana Horowitz, “15 People Who Were Fired Before They Became Filthy Rich,” Business Insider, April 25, 2011, https://www.businessinsider.com/15-people-who-were-fired-before-they-became-filthy-rich-2011-4.
4. Lilith Hardie Lupica, “Anna Wintour Was Once Fired from Her Styling Job, Says It Was Character Building,” Vogue, October 31, 2017, https://www.vogue.com.au/vogue-codes/news/anna-wintour-was-once-fired-from-her-styling-job-says-it-was-character-building/news-story/5309765e5cb67b6acd026f2d88c18026.
CHAPTER 7: NO GUTS, NO STORY
1. Léonie Shinn-Morris, “10 Things You Might Not Know About Vincent van Gogh,” Google Arts & Culture, accessed February 25, 2019.
2. Adam Grant, “The Surprising Habits of Original Thinkers,” 2016, TED video, 11:53.
3. Russell Herman Conwell and Robert Shackleton, Acres of Diamonds (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1915), 4–8.
CHAPTER 14: SO FAR. SO GOOD.
1. NPR staff, “How Dr. Seuss Got His Start ‘On Mulberry Street,’” NPR, January 24, 2012, https://www.npr.org/2012/01/24/145471724/how-dr-seuss-got-his-start-on-mulberry-street.