Notes

It’s Risky Out There

1. R.D. Hershey, Jr. “The Markets: Survey Says 78.7 Million Own Stocks in United States.” The New York Times, Friday, October 22, 1999, Section C, p. 10.

2. National Gambling Impact and Policy Commission (U.S.), The National Gambling Impact Study Commission: Final Report. (U.S. GPO: Superintendent of Documents, 1999).

3. “Credit Debt Problems in Australia, Britain, and Singapore.” Asia Pulse, Canberra, September 11, 2002.

4. N. Dillon, “Debt Load an Econ Crunch, Climbing Credit Card Bills May Crimp Consumer Spending.” New York Daily News, July 30, 2001, business section, p. 23.

5. D. Aird, “Student Credit Card Use Rockets.” The Atlanta-Journal Constitution, July 14, 2002, section Q, p. 1.

6. K.Yoshino and C. Liu, “Thrill Rides’ G-Forces Also Being Felt in Court.” Los Angeles Times, May 27, 2002, p. 1.

7. J. Walker, “Market ends ‘02 in Bear’s Shadow.” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, January 1, 2003, p. D1.

8. National Gambling Impact and Policy Commission (U.S.). The National Gambling Impact Study Commission: Final Report.

9. B. Gravely, “Personal Bankruptcies Set Record.” Chicago Sun-Times, February 20, 2002, financial section, p. 59; and F. Harrop, “Economy is Full of Worst-Case Scenarios.” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, December 27, 2002, p. A15.

10. Consumer Product Safety Review, Winter 1999.

11. S. Greenhouse, “Americans’ Lead in Work Hours Grew in 90’s.” The New York Times, July 10, 1999, late edition, final, section A, p. 8.

12. M. Jackson, “It’s 5 P.M. Friday: Know Where Your Weekend Is?” The New York Times, March 11, 2002.

13. “Where Has All The Time Gone?” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, May 12, 2002, p. A10.

14. “Yawn: These Are Such Exciting Times.” The New York Times, February 20, 2000, section 4, p. 7.

15. D. Leeth, “Travel on the Wild Side: Risk-taking Tourists Seem Eager for Adventure After Sept. 11.” The Denver Post, May 19, 2002, travel section, p. 1; and “Yes You!” The Washington Post, March 18, 2001, final edition, p. E01.

16. B. Urstadt, “Out There.” Worth, April 2002, pp. 86–91.

17. D. France, “One Real Space Cowboy.” Newsweek, March 21, 2001, p. 43.

18. C. Salter, “Leap of Faith.” Fast Company, April 2002, pp. 94–99.

19. C. Grimshaw, “Living Dangerously.” Sports Marketing, March 29, 2002, p. 35.

Right Risk

1. Joyce Baldwin, “Genetic Link Found for the Personality Trait of Novelty Seeking.” Psychiatric Times, April 1996, vol. 13, issue 4.

2. Scott Gummer, “The Explorer’s Heart.” Vanity Fair, May 2002, pp. 100–101.

3. H. Burkholtz, “Giving Thalidomide a Second Chance.” FDA Consumer, September 1, 1997, vol. 31.

4. Linda Bren, “Frances Oldham Kelsey: FDA Medical Reviewer Leaves Her Mark on History.” FDA Consumer Magazine, March–April 2001.

5. Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The Over-Soul” from Essays: First Series (1841) in The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson edited by Bruce Atkinson (New York: Random House, 2000).

Principle 1: Find Your Golden Silence

1. Rollo May, The Courage to Create. (New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1975).

2. Oprah Winfrey, “Right Now You Are One Choice Away from a New Beginning.” O Magazine, July 2002, p. 196.

3. C. Whitehouse, “Casting Out Demons.” Time International, July 9, 2001, vol. 158, p. 59.

4. Henry David Thoreau, Walking. (Bedford, MA: Applewood Books,1992).

5. Anthony de Mello, Awareness. (New York: Doubleday, 1992), p. 55.

6. Franz Kafka in The Collected Aphorisms,Vol. 1, no. 109, Shorter Works, Edited and translated by Malcolm Pasley (London: Syrens [Penguin]), 1974).

7. Anthony de Mello, Awareness, p. 43.

Principle 4: Turn on the Risk Pressure

1. Jill Lieber, “Pioneer Burton Riding Snowboarding Avalanche.” USA Today, February 6, 2002, p. C8.

2. Gardiner Morse, “Innovation, Inc.” Harvard Business Review, August 2002, pp. 18–19.

3. Bill Treasurer, “How Risk-Taking Really Works.” Training Magazine, January 2002, pp. 40–44.

4. Nick Leeson, Rogue Trader: How I Brought Down Barings Bank and Shook the Financial World. (New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1996).

5. The details of this story came from several sources: Howard G. Chua-Eoan, “Going For Broke: The Ego of a 28-Year-Old Trader and the Greed of His 232-Year-Old Bank Combine to Destroy an Investment Empire, Stunning the Business World.” Time, March 13, 1995, p. 40; John R. Nofsinger, Investment Blunders (of the Rich and Famous) . . . and What You Can Learn from Them. (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Financial Times Prentice Hall, 2002); Barry Hillenbrand, “Scandals: Who Was In Charge? The Bank of England Reports That Mismanagement Allowed Nick Leeson to Break the Back of Barings.” Time International, July 31, 1995, p. 30; D. Visser, “Trading Places.” Minneapolis Star Tribune, July 7, 1999, p. 01D; and Leeson, Rogue Trader.

Principle 5: Put Yourself on the Line

1. Susan Estrich, “Rape.” Yale Law Journal 95, 1986, p. 1087.

2. Scott Shepard, “A Year Later, Jeffords’ Switch Reverberates.” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, May 24, 2002. p. A3.

3. Associated Press, “Study Finds Evidence of Personality Genes.” The Columbian, May 25, 1998, world and nation section.

4. This quote is from “Interview with Dr. Jonas Salk,” May 16, 1991, The Hall of Science and Exploration, Academy of Achievement. (http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page /sal0int-1. Other sources for details in this story are Wilfrid Sheed, “Time 100: Virologist Jonas Salk; Many Scientists Were Racing to Make a Polio Vaccine in the ’50s—But He Got There First.” Time, March 29, 1999, p. 168; Michael Neill, Scott Lafee, and Mary Esselman, “Tribute: Hero in a White Lab Coat: With His Polio Vaccine, Jonas Salk Made the World a Safer Place for Children.” People, July 10, 1995, p. 76; and D. Denenberg and L. Roscoe, “Jonas Salk: Medical Pioneer.” Lancaster New Era, April 30, 2002, p. A-12.

5. “Hunter, John (1728–1793)” in The Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography, January 1, 1998.

6. R.K. Sobel, “Barry Marshall: A Gutsy Gulp Changes Medical Science.” Newsweek, August 27, 2001, p. 59.

7. M.R. Levenson, “Risk-taking Personality.” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, vol 58 (6), June 1990, pp. 1073–1080.

Principle 6: Make Fear Work For You

1. http://www.af.mil/news/factsheets/Thunderbirds.html

2. Rene Sanchez, “A City Combats AIDS Complacency: As Rate of Sexual Diseases Climb, San Francisco Preaches Risk to Gay Men.” The Washington Post, May 12, 2002, p. A03.

3. Richard W. Sterling and William C. Scott, Plato’s The Republic. (New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1996).

4. Michael J. Apter, The Dangerous Edge: The Psychology of Excitement (New York: The Free Press, a Division of Macmillan, 1992).

Principle 7: Have the Courage to Be Courageous

1. Craig Vetter, “The Immovable Object Meets the Unstoppable Force.” Outside Magazine, December 2000.

2. Robert Sullivan (with reporting by Brad Liston, Michelle McCalope, McKenna Collette Parker), “Dale Earnhardt/The Last Lap: 1951–2001.” Time, March 5, 2001, p. 60.

3. Sullivan, “Dale Earnhardt/The Last Lap: 1951–2001.” p. 60.

4. Cora Daniels, “It’s a Living Hell: Whistleblowing Makes for Great TV, But the Aftereffects Can Be Brutal.” Fortune, April 15, 2002, pp. 367–368.

5. W. Shapiro, “FBI, Enron Memo Writers Probably Felt Similar Push.” USA Today, May 29, 2002, p. 10A.

6. Shapiro, “FBI, Enron Memo Writers Probably Felt Similar Push,” p. 10A.

7. Geoffrey Colvin, “Wonder Women of Whistleblowing.” Fortune, August 12, 2002, p. 56.

8. Matthew Cooper, “10 Questions for Ralph Nader.” Time, August 5, 2002, p. 6.

9. Elizabeth Mullener, “Tales of Heroism.” The Times-Picayune (New Orleans), December 7, 2001, national section, p. 14.

10. Stephanie Salter, “Activism; Never, Never, Never Give Up; From War Hero to Pacifist.” San Francisco Chronicle, November 4, 2001, insight section, p. C3.

11. Michael Taylor, “A Matter of Honor; He Gave Back His Medal of Honor to Risk His Freedom in Protesting His Countries Policies.” San Francisco Chronicle, March 13, 2000, news section, p. A3.

12. Richard Whitt, “War Hero Now Wages Struggle Against Violence.” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, November 14, 1999, p. F5.

Principle 8: Be Perfectly Imperfect

1. Monica Ramirez Basco, Never Good Enough (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1999).

2. James Baldwin, The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction 1948–1985 (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1985).

Principle 9: Trespass Continuously

1. Susan Hahn and Alison Hahn, “Educationist’s Anti-Nazi Role.” Independent (London), Letter to the Editors. August 27, 1994, p. 10.

2. Martin Flavin, Kurt Hahn’s Schools and Legacy. (Wilmington, DE: The Middle Atlantic Press, 1996).

3. Carolyn Curtis, “Outward Bound.” Saturday Evening Post, November 21, 1995, vol 267, p. 74 (3).

4. M. T. Khan, “Voyage to Maturity.” Birmingham Post, April 4, 2001, p. 43.

5. Flavin, Kurt Hahn’s Schools and Legacy.

6. C. P. Snow, “Either-or.” Progressive, vol. 24, p. 535, 1961.

7. Stanley Milgram, Obedience to Authority. (New York: Harper and Row Publishers, 1974).

8. Peter Gray, Psychology. (New York: Worth Publishers, 1991).

9. Milgram, Obedience to Authority.

10. Thomas Blass, “The Man Who Shocked the World.” Psychology Today, March 1, 2002, p. 68.

11. Milgram, Obedience to Authority.

12. Nell Boyce et al., “Hugh Thompson: Reviled, Then Honored, for His Actions at My Lai.” Special issue of U.S. News and World Report: Real Heroes. August 20–27, 2001, pp. 33–34.

13. Rollo May, The Courage to Create, (New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1975).

Principle 10: Expose Yourself

1. Don Jewel is not his real name.

2. Thomas Moore, Soul Mates: Honoring the Mysteries of Love and Relationship. (New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1994), p. 23.

3. Moore, Soul Mates, p. 30.

The Rightest Risk of All

1. Pindar, The Olympian and Pythian Odes; Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essay II: Self-Reliance; Erich Fromm, Man for Himself: An Inquiry into the Psychology of Ethics (New York: Henry Holt, reprinted 1990); Robert Louis Stevenson, Of Men and Books (1882); Abraham Maslow, “A Theory of Human Motivation,” Psychological Review, vol. 50, 1943, pp. 370–396.

2. M. Jenkins, “King of the Dirtbags.” Outside Magazine, November 2001. p. 45.

3. Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Volume 1, Inferno, Canto 66 (New York: Penguin Books, 1984).

4. Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self-Reliance” from Essays: First Series (1841). www.RWE.org—The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson.