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Schilling, Melissa A.
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Inventors -- Psychology.
Personality and creative ability.
Genius.
Inventions.
Technological innovations.
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Schilling, Melissa A.
Inventors -- Psychology.
Personality and creative ability.
Genius.
Inventions.
Technological innovations.
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Quirky
: the
remarkable
story
of the
traits
,
foibles
, and
genius
of
breakthrough
innovators
who
changed
the
world
/ Melissa A. Schilling.
by
Schilling, Melissa A.
PublicAffairs, 2018.
Call #:
609.22 S334q
Subjects
Inventors -- Psychology.
Personality and creative ability.
Genius
.
Inventions.
Technological innovations.
ISBN:
9781610397926 (hc.)
Description:
v, 316 p., 8 p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-298) and index.
Contents:
"Don't tell me it's impossible. Tell me you can't do it.": what makes some people spectacularly innovative? -- "I gang my own gait ... ": a sense of "separateness" -- "He's like a walking moonshot.": extreme confidence -- "Ideas came in an uninterrupted stream ... ": the creative mind -- "Once she had recognized a certain way as a right one, she pursued it without compromise ... ": a higher purpose -- "Work made the Earth a paradise for me.": driven to work -- "The sixties produced an anarchic mind-set ... ": opportunities and challenges of an era -- "It's not about the money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it ... ": access to resources -- "You get creative people, you bet big on them, you give them enormous leeway and support ... ": nurturing the potential that lies within.
Summary:
Melissa Schilling, one of the
world
's leading experts on innovation, invites us into the lives of eight people--Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, Elon Musk, Dean Kamen, Nikola Tesla, Marie Curie, Thomas Edison, and Steve Jobs--to identify the
traits
and experiences that drove them to make spectacular breakthroughs, over and over again.
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