Adams, Ansel, 72, 91, 120, 193
adversity, 135
age
time perception and, 145
Alchemist, The (Coelho), 87, 88, 93
Arbus, Diane, 124
Armani, Giorgio, 112
author’s contact info, 277
autonomy, 78
Barrie, James M., 215
Beatles, The, 106
“Before I die....” question, 229
Bernstein, Leonard, 229
Bisharat, Andrew, 130
Blake, William, 202
boomerang effect, 76
Bourgeois, Louise, 22
brain, lizard, 76
breaks, taking, 164, 166–167, 183
Brown, Brené, 48
Buber, Martin, 1
Caen, Herb, 115
Cain, Susan, 93
cameras
author’s discovery of, 146, 149
See also photography
Camus, Albert, 276
Carrey, Jim, 91
Carter, Keith, 188
Cat in the Hat, The (Dr. Seuss), 263
Celtic mythology, 156
Cerf, Bennett, 264
Chong, Evan, 73
Cleese, John, 183
Cohen, Leonard, 223
collaboration, 237
Collins, Jim, 127
Cotte, Pascal, 220
Cox, Coleman, 151
creative adaptation, 83
creative growth, 45, 72, 186, 189, 206
creativity
Creativity (Csikszentmihalyi), 40
boomerang effect and, 76
Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly, 40, 93, 149
cummings, e e, 173
curiosity, 193
Currey, Donald Rusk, 65
da Vinci, Leonardo, 220
day jobs, 10
de Botton, Alain, 183
Dead Poets Society (Schulman), 112, 230
death
awareness of, 226, 229–230, 245
close encounters with, 240, 243
facing the fact of, 225, 247, 252
life illuminated by, 248
Decker, Ben, 49
Deep Survival (Gonzales), 81
Degas, Edgar, 261
Dickinson, Emily, 243
difficulty, 130, 215, 266, 272, 276
digital photography, 119–120, 267
See also photography
digital sabbath, 183
Don Quixote (Cervantes), 6
duChemin, David, 120
Eastman, George, 205
effort, creative, 4, 7, 22, 151–152
Einstein, Albert, 29, 39, 55, 56, 162, 164, 206, 220
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 63, 88, 170, 208, 247
energy map, 157
Escher, M. C., 138
Essentialism (McKowen), 93
excuses, 101
Finding Your Element (Robinson), 93
Flow (Csikszentmihalyi), 93
football, 129
Ford, Harrison, 90
Forster, E. M., 62
Frank, Anne, 22
Gehry, Frank, 48
Glass, Ira, 257
Golden Gate Bridge, 115
Gonzales, Laurence, 81
grace, 62
Graham, Martha, 24
Green Eggs and Ham (Dr. Seuss), 264
guidelines, 267
Gutenberg, Johannes, 35
habits, 179
hardship, 130
Harris, Edmund, 98
helplessness, learned, 22
Henri, Robert, 154
Henson, Jim, 34
holistic view, 108
humanity, 197
ideals, 152
identity, 78
imagination, 27, 29, 30, 193–194
imitation, 213
inspiration, 57, 90, 97, 151, 152, 156
inventions, 22, 35, 40, 42, 200, 202
iteration, 261
Jacks, L. P., 188
Jackson, Mahalia, 233–234, 236
Jefferson, Thomas, 92
Jobs, Steve, 40, 42, 55, 56, 226
Johnson, Jack, 121
Johnson, Steven, 42
Jorgeson, Kevin, 130
Keller, Helen, 6
Kermit the Frog, 34
Kerouac, Jack, vi
kindness, 149
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 22, 225, 234, 236, 237
Kleon, Austin, 214
Konnikova, Maria, 208
Labor, Earl, 48
Lamott, Anne, 49
Laskas, Jeanne Marie, 173
learned helplessness, 22
Les Misérables (Hugo), 188, 272
Lewis, C. S., 261
Liebeck, Jack, 164
Lief, Judy, 179
Lieto, Chris, 135
light bulbs, 42
limitations, 263, 264, 266, 267
lizard brain, 76
London, Jack, 7, 48, 97–98, 194
Lucas, George, 90
magnetic north, 61
Mahabharata, 245
Mallory, George, 129
Mandela, Nelson, 135
Man’s Search for Meaning (Frankl), 93
Marcus Aurelius, 53
Matisse, Henri, 206
McCullough, David, 16
McGregor, Ewan, 206
McKowen, Greg, 93
meditation, 183
Merwin, W. S., 243
“Messenger” (Oliver), 112
Michelangelo, 276
might, acting with, 250
Miller, Henry, 197
Milton, John, 275
Moby Dick (Melville), 213
Mona Lisa (da Vinci), 220
monomania, 257
mountain climbing, 129–130, 133
multi-tasking, 180
Mumford, Marcus, 193
National Geographic, 130
National Parks, 10
near-death experiences, 240
Nin, Anais, 91
Nye, Naomi Shihab, 226
oasis, 188
Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck), 258
Orwig, Jeff, 135
Parkinson, Cyril, 229
path to success, 106, 109, 138, 142
patience, 149
Penn, William, 172
personal legend, 87, 88, 90, 93
perspective change, 149
Peter Pan (Barrie), 215
authenticity and, 120
author’s discovery of, 146, 149
dealing with critiques of, 49, 76
reason for doing, 115
silence related to, 170
vision and, 91
Picard, Max, 169
Picasso, Pablo, 24, 55, 56, 152, 172, 206
Plato, 16
Plutarch, vi
Poe, Edgar Allan, 193
Pressfield, Steve, 237
printing press, 35
Prinz, Joachim, 234
Quiet (Cain), 93
Rath, Tom, 93
regret vs. shame, 62
resistance, 237
Riboud, Marc, 146
Rilke, Rainer Maria, 230
Roethke, Thomas, 167
role models, 109
Roosevelt, Theodore, vii, 10, 13, 98, 100, 101, 135
Schnabel, Artur, 176
Schulman, Tom, 112
Schwab, Charles, 49
self-forgetfulness, 149
Seligman, Martin, 22
Seven Story Mountain, The (Merton), 93
Sexton, John, 172
shame vs. regret, 62
Silverstein, Shel, 30
Sinek, Simon, 112
Slater, Kelly, 78
Sledge, Sharlande, 156
Socrates, 159
spray and pray, 119
Steal Like an Artist (Kleon), 214
Steinbeck, John, 257–258, 260, 261
Stone, Linda, 175
Stravinsky, Igor, 266
Strength Finder (Rath), 93
strengths, identifying, 79
success
misconceptions about, 141
suffering, 215
switch-tasking, 180
talent, 97
TED talks, 20, 48, 90, 112, 229
Thomas, Dylan, 252
Thoreau, Henry David, 103
Thurman, Howard, 88
“To Build a Fire” (London), 194
Tolkien, J. R. R., 260
Tolstoy, Leo, 119
Tortilla Flat (Steinbeck), 257
Twain, Mark, 59, 61, 62, 119, 141
Van Gogh, Vincent, 276
Velveteen Rabbit, The (Williams), 220
vision, 91
waking up, 240
War of Art, The (Pressfield), 237
Watts, Alan W., 202
Williams, Margery, 220
Wolpe, David, 230
work-life balance, 108
Yeats, W. B., 75
Yelverton, Theresa, 10
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