Contents
Introduction
Chapter
1: The Traditional Success
Paradigm
Our
Ethos of Success ·
Know the Rules of the Game ·
We Should Seek Truth ·
Quest for Success ·
The Pendulum of Thought ·
The Contradictions ·
Outside Influences ·
The Success Paradigm ·
The Need for Control ·
Catalytic Concepts
Chapter 2: Belief Systems
We
Want to Believe ·
The Illogic of Logical Beliefs ·
The Royal Treatment ·
The Religious Perspective ·
The Role of Religion ·
Ancient Beliefs ·
The Need Runs Deep ·
What We’ve Believed About Success ·
Catalytic Concepts
Chapter 3: Attribution
The Attribution Tendency ·
Consider the Source? ·
Advertising and Attribution ·
Success Stories ·
Knowledge Leads to Success ·
Casino Connections ·
Success is Evasive ·
Catalytic Concepts
Chapter
4: Doublethink
A Useful Mental Tool ·
The
Yin and Yang ·
Maturity
Means Gray ·
“Knowledge” is Suspect ·
Modes of Thinking ·
Cognitive Dissonance ·
Fitting
Outside Influences In ·
Catalytic Concepts
Chapter
5: The Law of Outside
Influences
Omnipresent Yet Often Unseen ·
Mokita ·
The Loser’s Limp
·
Personal
Responsibility ·
The Sources of Outside Influences
·
The
Scope of Outside Influences ·
Influences in Context
·
Catalytic
Concepts
Chapter
6: Future Block
Seeing the Future ·
Predicting
Audience Reaction ·
Random Events Theory ·
Random Thoughts ·
Random
Events Can be Massive ·
A Quark’s Journey ·
The “Life Formula”
Concept
·
Catalytic
Concepts
Chapter
7: Evidence In Nature
The Law of Averages and Massive Effort ·
Lightning Strikes Twice ·
The Flaw of Averages ·
Natural
Selection ·
Natural
Success ·
Catalytic
Concepts
Chapter
8: Evidence In Life
A “Chance” Meeting ·
Deadly
Results ·
Who
Wants to Be a Millionaire? ·
The Bell Curve and the 1964 World’s Fair
·
Income
Distribution ·
The
Domino Effect
·
Catalytic
Concepts
Chapter
9: Evidence In Sports
Sports Mimic Life ·
Pure
Competition ·
Picture
Perfect ·
Team
Sports ·
Fishing
·
Golf
·
The
60-Foot Putt ·
A
Flash of Genius ·
Catalytic
Concepts
Chapter
10: Evidence In Science
The Miracle of You ·
Incompleteness Theorem ·
Chaos Theory
·
Universal
Proportions ·
Catalytic
Concepts
Chapter
11: Evidence In Business
Business Building ·
The
Business Life Cycle ·
Opportunity Knocks ·
The New Coke™ ·
The
Financial Future ·
Don’t
Take Information Too Seriously ·
Drilling for Oil ·
The
Key to Business Success ·
The Illusion of Control ·
Catalytic Concepts
Chapter
12: Acceptance
A Sense of Knowing ·
Strive
for Excellence and Honor the Effort ·
Courage, Character, and
Noble Motivations ·
The Big Time ·
The Arrogance of Affluence ·
Room
to Grow ·
Blending
·
Catalytic
Concepts
Chapter
13: Be Open to the
Universe
Opportunity Abounds ·
A
Basketball Contest ·
Try Lots of Things ·
Search for the Spark ·
Hang
Tough ·
Suspend
Fear of Failure ·
Make Hay While the Sun Shines ·
Success Breeds Success ·
A
Noble Character ·
Catalytic
Concepts
Chapter
14: Future Influences
The Value of Knowledge ·
The
Serendipity of Success ·
Healthy Skepticism ·
Trials and Tribulations ·
Why,
the Audacity! ·
When
Your Ship Comes In ·
In the Absence of Big Time Success ·
What’s
Average? ·
Stick
With the Basics ·
The Wonder of it All ·
Fare Thee Well
Acknowledgments
