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005			20180722225833.0
008			171016t20182018nyua b 001 0ceng
010			_a 2017043370
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019			_a986976454
020			_a9781610397926 _q(hardcover)
020			_a1610397924 _q(hardcover)
035			_a(OCoLC)987793508 _z(OCoLC)986976454
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092			_a609.22 _bS334
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aSchilling, Melissa A., _eauthor. _9351330
245	1	0	_aQuirky : _bthe remarkable story of the traits, foibles, and genius of breakthrough innovators who changed the world / _cMelissa A. Schilling.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York, NY : _bPublicAffairs, _c2018.
264		4	_c©2018
300			_av, 316 pages, 8 unnumbered pages : _billustrations ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 289-298) and index.
505	0		_a"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.
520			_a"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."--Jacket flap.
650		0	_aInventors _xPsychology. _9351331
650		0	_aPersonality and creative ability. _9232710
650		0	_aGenius. _942267
650		0	_aInventions. _935287
650		0	_aTechnological innovations. _990163
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