"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.

"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.

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