• 10,000-hour rule

A

• Abandonment, fear
• Academy of Music (Berlin), student admission
• Accomplishments, dissatisfaction
• Ackerman, Jennifer
• Advantages
  • social systems
  • success, absence
• Advertising, importance
• Aiden Erez Lieberman
• Al Saud, Mohammad bin Salman bin Abdulaziz
• Alexander III
• Ali, Ayaan Hirsi
• Alibaba, launch
• Amazon
• Amazon Web Services (AWS), launch
• Amyx Ventures
• Amyx+, initiation
• Angel Network
• Antonine Plague
• Antunes, Fatima Martin Rodrigues Ferreira
• Appearance, improvement
• Arbesman, Samuel
• Artificial intelligence (AI)
  • IBM pursuit
  • impact
• Artistic pursuit
• Artistic success
• Asimov, Isaac
• Attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD)
• AutoCAD, usage
• Automation, impact

B

• Ball, Lucille
• Bangu Athletic Club, founding
• Beatles (success)
• Belshazzar’s Feast (Rembrandt)
• Bethune, Mary McLeod (opportunities)
• Bezos, Jeff
• Biles, Simon
• Billups, Paula
• Biohacking
  • impact
• Biometrics
• Bloody Sunday (1905)
• Body
  • disruption/stress
  • hacking
• Bolshevik, power
• Bonchek, Mark
• Boom, Corrie Ten
• Boorman, Arthur
• Brain
  • change/adaptation, ability
  • meditation, impact
  • power, increase
  • stress/rest, relationship
• Brand
• Brazil
  • race/class
  • soccer, genesis
  • soccer, success (determination)
• Breathing exercises
• Brim, Orville Gilbert
• Britannic (White Star Line)
• Buchanan, James
• Burns, Ursula (career/risk)
• Business
  • passion
  • reinvention
  • risk
• Busyness
  • productivity, nonequivalence

C

• Careers, change
• Carlsen, Magnus
• Carmichael, Sarah Green
• Cars, passion
• Carver, George Washington
• Catherine of Aragon
• Challenge
  • embracing
  • meeting
• Change
  • education
  • embracing
  • outcome
• Chess, champion status
• Children
  • burden, perspective
  • growth engine
• Chinese Exclusion Act
• Choudary, Sangeet Paul
• Christie, Agatha
• Chung-hee, Park
• Cinderella
• Coasting
• Cognitive artificial intelligence, impact
• College, entry
• Comfort zone
  • abandonment
  • Twilight zone, contrast
• Commodus
• Community
  • personal impact
  • striving
• Compaq, Zip2 sale
• Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company
• Counsel, forms
• Creativity (improvement), meditation (impact)
• Cuban, Mark

D

• da Silva, Leônidas (“Black Diamond”)
• da Silva, Marta Vieira
• Da Vinci
  • sponsors, shift
• Daytona Normal, opening
• Deep Blue (IBM)
• Depression, discussion
• Descartes, René
• Dewey, Thomas
• di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, Michelangelo
• Dickinson, Emily
• Diet, change
• Digital Currency of Happiness, usage
• Disruption
  • muscles
• do Nascimento, Edson Arantes
• Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), usage
• dot-com bubble
• Douglas, Frederick
• Doyle, Arthur Conan
• Dred Scott decision
• Drugs, taking
• Dyson, James

E

• Economic gain, absence
• Edison, Thomas
• Education, impact
• Ekso Bionics
• Elizabeth I
• Elliman, Douglas
• Emotional intelligence (EI), increase
• Endless.com
• Ericsson, Anders
• Euripides
• Exceptional people, success
• Exercise, benefits
• External circumstances, impact
• Ezekiel

F

• Factory jobs, loss
• Failure
  • encouragement
  • frequency
  • impact
  • power/money, relationship
  • repetition
  • self-care, absence
• Fame
  • attainment
  • differences
  • importance, perspective
  • talent, absence
  • worth, relationship
• Family matters
• Federalist Papers (Hamilton)
• Fire Phone (smartphone), failure
• First Industrial Revolution
• Flashbacks, occurrence
• Flight
• Ford, Henry
• Fort Necessity, character slander
• Fourth Industrial Revolution
• Foxx, Jamie
• Freedman, Liz
• French Revolution, struggles
• FreshBooks
• Friendship, Duke study

G

• Galen
• Gaming, popularity
• Garage biology movement
• Gates, Bill (success)
• General Electric (GE)
• Generally Recognized As Safe (GRAS)
• Gladwell, Malcolm
• Goals
  • achievement
    • failure
  • attainment, success (impact)
  • exercise-related goal
  • meeting
  • obstacles/challenges
  • reassessment, insights (impact)
  • setting
  • utility, tracking
• Golden Rule
• Greatness, achievement
• Growth
  • personal growth

H

• Hallucinogen-persisting perception disorder (HPPD)
• Hamilton, Alexander
• Hariot, Thomas
• Hartston, William
• Hasselhoff, David
• Health, measurement
• Henry VIII, obsession
• Herman, Dottie
• Hidden advantages
  • impact
• Hiding Place, The
• High intensity interval training (HIIT)
• Hill, faith
• Hippocratic oath, application
• Hitler, Adolf
• HMS Hawke
• Hudson, Katheryn
• Huffington, Arianna
• Human Universal Load Carrier (HULC)
• Humanizing, effect
• Humby, Baxter
• Hyperloop, creation

I

• I Am Malala (Yousafzai)
• Indian Removal Act
• Individuals, disruption
• Industrial Institute for Girls, opening
• Industrial Revolution
• Informed perseverance
• Innate abilities, absence
• Insights
  • impact
• International Business Machines (IBM)
• International Space Station
• International Sport Club, players (admission)
• Internet of Things (IoT)
• Isaacson, Walter
• Itskov, Dmitry

J

• Jackson, Jesse
• Jackson, Jimmie Lee
• Jansen, Theo
• Japanese citizens, internment (World War I)
• Jessop, Violet (luck)
• Jews, blackmail
• Jobs, Steve

K

• Kamsky, Gata
• Kantrowitz, Mark
• Kasparov, Garry
• Keegan, Paul
• Keller, Helen
• Kerr, Catherine
• Key performance indicators (KPIs)
• King George V (England)
• Kingsley, Mary
• Kitty Hawk (North Carolina)
• Knowledge/experience, absence
• Knox, Hugh
• Korea, disruption
• Korean International Cooperation Agency (KOICA)
• Korean War, effects
• Ku Klux Klan, harassment

L

• L'Amour, Louis
• L'Amyx Tea Bar
• Langley, Samuel P./John
• Lavien, John Michael
• Łazowski, Eugeniusz (risk-taking)
• League of Legends (development)
• Learning, impact
• Lewis, Michael
• Life
  • improvement, meditation (impact)
  • risk
  • striving
• Lincoln, Abraham
• LinkedIn, usage
• Look at Me! (Brim)
• Lottery winners, examination
• Luck, impact
• Lusitania (attack)
• Lytton, Peter

M

• Ma, Jack
• Magritte, Rene
• Majestic (White Star Line)
• Mandel, Stefan
• Marcus Aurelius
• Marois, René
• Mars, colonization (plans)
• Matulewicz, Stanislaw (risk-taking)
• Mauboussin, Michael J.
• Mayflower
• MBA, attainment
• McDonald, Norm
• Meditation, impact
• Memory
  • improvement, meditation (impact)
  • retention, napping (importance)
• Mental acuity, strengthening
• Meyer, David
• Michel, Jean-Baptiste
• Microdosing
• MicroSolutions
• Miller, Charles
• Mission statements
• Mohammed, future
• Money
  • importance, perspective
  • investment
  • power/failure, relationship
  • success measurement
• Moneyball (Lewis)
• Monroe, Marilyn
• Moody, D.L.
• Motorola
• Muscle
  • building
  • damage
• Musk, Elon

N

• Nation, disruption
• National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)
• Natural talent, impact
• Naturalization Law (1790)
• Nazis, impact
• Network effects
• Neuralinks
• Newton, Isaac
• Next Big Sound (NBS) survey
• Nicholas II. See Romanov
• Nootropics
• North Korea

O

• Oates, Titus
• Olympic (White Star Line)
• Opportunity
  • inequality
• Oprah Effect
• Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN), initiation
• Orinoco (Royal Mail Shipping Line)
• Outcomes, quantification
• Outliers
• Outliers (Gladwell)
• Oxygen (cable channel)

P

• Passion
  • economic gain, absence
  • following
  • innate abilities, absence
  • knowledge/experience, absence
  • payoff
  • plays
  • success, relationship
• Pearse, Richard
• Pele
• Perry, Katy
• Perseverance
  • importance
  • informed perseverance
  • insights, impact
  • risk, pairing
• Personal branding
• Personal Empowerment Points
• Personal growth
• Personal mission statements, sample
• Personal risk
• Personal satisfaction ratings, tracking
• Phan, Michelle
• Philosopher’s Stone, The (Rowling)
• Physical exercise, importance
• Platform effect
• Poe, Edgar Allan
• Pollaiuolo, Antonio
• Popish Plot, The
• Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS)
• Post, Bud
• Power
  • money/failure, relationship
  • success measurement
• Practice
• Predestination ideology
• Pride, tendency
• Principia Mathematica (Newton)
• Productivity, busyness (nonequivalence)
• Progress, verification

R

• Racism, impact
• Raleigh, Walter
• Reach, increase
• Reagan, Ronald
• Rehoboam, pride (impact)
• Relationships, building
• Religious freedom, search
• Renaissance, truth (hunger)
• Rest, stress/brain (relationship)
• Richards, Anne
• Righteous Among Nations
• Risk
  • change
  • education
  • embracing/expectation
  • outcome
  • perseverance, pairing
  • personal risk
  • perspective
• Risk-taking, impact
• Roanoke Island, expedition
• Romanov, Nikolai Aleksandrovich (Nicholas II)
• Romans, tax policies
• Roosevelt, Eleanor
• Roosevelt, Franklin D.
• Rothschild family, power
• Rothschild, Mayer Amschel (wealth, passage)
• Rowling, J.K.

S

• Santichen, Kate
• Satisfaction
  • measurement
  • personal satisfaction ratings, tracking
• Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS)
• Saudi Arabia, change
• Scholarship
  • earning
  • usage
• Second Industrial Revolution
• Secrets to Winning a Scholarship (Kantrowitz)
• Self-care, absence
• Self-disruption
• Self-enhancement
• Self-quantification
• Selfishness, tendency
• Septimus Severus
• Shakespeare, William
• Singing/dancing, passion
• Skill, hours (devotion)
• Slavery (issue), Buchanan (disinterest)
• Slavic immigration, limitations
• Sleep Revolution, The (Huffington)
• Sleep, benefits
• Smithsonian, investment
• Soccer
  • professionalization
  • success, achievement
• Social media
  • importance
  • usage
  • usefulness
• Society, polarization (reduction)
• SolarCity
• Solomon (wisdom)
• Soros, George
• South Korea
  • architecture
  • success, achievement
• Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX)
• Speaking out
• Specialty
• Speedwell
• Spurgeon, Charles
• Stassen, Harold
• Status, success measurement
• Strandbeest (Jansen)
• Strategic National Arts Alumni Project (SNAP), usage
• Strength training
• Stress
  • reduction
  • rest/brain, relationship
  • stress-related illnesses
• Strive
  • ethics
  • idea, support
  • path
  • principles
  • steps
• Striving
• Success
  • absence
  • achievement
  • antithesis
  • artistic success
  • attainment, self-disruption (usage)
  • cost
  • failures, impact
  • gateway, sports (relationship)
  • guarantee
  • hidden advantages, impact
  • impact
  • inequality
  • journey, risks
  • magnification
  • measurement
  • mental clarity/health, impact
  • metrics
  • passion, relationship
  • perseverance/risk, pairing
  • personal journey
  • plan
  • practice, impact
  • quantification
  • requirements
  • self-care, absence
  • technology, external factor
  • verification/magnification
• Sugihara, Chiune
• Sullivan, Roy
• Superhuman, status

T

• Talent, hours (devotion)
• Technology
  • external factor
  • impact
  • whiplash changes
• Technology, leveraging
• Telomeres, presence
• Therapy, impact
• Third Industrial Revolution
• Time Transfixed (Magritte)
• Titanic (sinking)
• Touchpoints Basic
• Tower jumpers
• Transhumanism movement
• Tuition, payment
• Twitch (videos), failure

U

• Utility, definition

V

• Verbal assaults
• Videoconferencing, impact
• Virtual platform, building
• Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), usage

W

• Wage theft
• Washington, George
• Watson (IBM)
• Weight training
• White privilege
• Willpower
  • learning, impact
  • strengthening
• Winfrey, Oprah
  • power/talent
• Worth, fame (relationship)
• Wright, Orville/Wilbur (Wright Brothers)
  • flight experiments, secrecy
  • Pearse, relationship

X

• X.com (project)
• Xerox, leadership

Y

• Yoga
• Yousafzai, Malala
• Youth sports, success (gateway)

Z

• Zedong, Mao
• Zeta-Jones, Catherine
• Ziglar, Zig
• Zip2, founding
• Zuckerberg, Mark