Chapter One

  1.     Bob Dylan, “It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding),” track 10 on Bringing It All Back Home, Columbia Records, 1965.

  2.     Luke 12:48 KJV.

  3.     Samuel Barber, Hudibras (Reprint, London: John Murray, 1835), Vol. I, Part II, Canto I, line 844, https://archive.org/details/hudibraswithnot00hudigoog/. Likely a paraphrase of “He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes” (Proverbs 13:24 KJV).

  4.     Antonio Terracciano, Paul T. Costa Jr., and Robert R. McCrae, “Personality Plasticity after Age 30,” Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin 32, no. 8 (2006): 999–1009, https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167206288599.

  5.     Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, trans. C. D. C. Reeve (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 2014), 10.

  6.     Howard Gardner, Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences, 3rd ed. (New York: Basic Books, 2011), xxix, 3–12, 63-76.

  7.     Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Vol. 2, trans. Henry Reeve (New York: J. & H. G. Langley, 1840). Reprinted with introduction and notes by Phillips Bradley (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1945), 122.

  8.     Abraham Maslow, “A Theory of Human Motivation,” Psychological Review 50, no. 4 (1943), 370–96.

  9.     Abraham Maslow. Eupsychian Management: A Journal (Homewood, IL: Richard D. Irwin, Inc. and The Dorsey Press, 1965), 20.

  10.   Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning (Massachusetts: Beacon Press, 2014), 92.

  11.   Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning (Massachusetts: Beacon Press, 2014), 78.