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“be great competitors”: Pete Carroll, head coach of the Seattle Seahawks, in a phone call with the author, May 13, 2013.

“join a great team”: Chambliss, interview.

thinking a different way: Lee Ross and Richard E. Nisbett, The Person and the Situation: Perspectives of Social Psychology (London: McGraw-Hill, 1991). This book sums up all this research beautifully.

James March: James G. March, “How Decisions Happen in Organizations,” Human-Computer Interaction 6 (1991): 95–117.

“I am a West Pointer”: Tom Deierlein, cofounder and CEO of ThunderCat Technology, in an email with the author, October 29, 2011.

“they got used to it”: Deierlein, in an email to the author, September 17, 2015.

“the Finnish spirit”: Time, “Northern Theatre: Sisu,” January 8, 1940.

“he can stand worse”: Hudson Strode, “Sisu: A Word That Explains Finland,” New York Times, January 14, 1940.

asked a thousand Finns: Emilia Lahti, “Above and Beyond Perseverance: An Exploration of Sisu” (Masters Capstone, University of Pennsylvania, 2013).

“I wear this jersey”: Betty Liu, Work Smarts: What CEOs Say You Need to Know to Get Ahead (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2014), 7.

“No one here is insignificant”: Thomas II, Amazon review of “Last Man Standing: The Ascent of Jamie Dimon and JP Morgan Chase,” October 8, 2009, http://www.amazon.com/Last-Man-Standing-Ascent-JPMorgan/dp/B003STCKN0.

“grytte”: Ben Smith, “Master Howard Dean,” Observer, December 8, 2003, http://observer.com/2003/12/master-howard-dean.

senior year at Browning: Duff McDonald, Last Man Standing: The Ascent of Jamie Dimon (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2009), 5.

“I call it fortitude”: Jamie Dimon, chairman, president, and CEO of JPMorgan Chase, in conversation with the author, April 14, 2015.

“the ultimate thing”: Dimon, interview.

“how they treat people”: Nick Summers and Max Abelson, “Why JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon is Wall Street’s Indispensable Man,” Bloomberg Businessweek, May 16, 2013.

“let my kids work for them?”: Dimon, interview.

“actually in the arena”: Theodore Roosevelt, “The Man in the Arena. Citizenship in a Republic,” address delivered at the Sorbonne, Paris, 1910.

“not reasons to quit”: JPMorgan Chase & Co., How We Do Business, 2014, http://www.jpmorganchase.com/corporate/About-JPMC/document/20140711_Website_PDF_FINAL.pdf.

“that as a compliment”: Tim Crothers, The Man Watching: Anson Dorrance and the University of North Carolina Women’s Soccer Dynasty (New York: Thomas Dunne, 2006), 37.

“final measure of greatness”: Ibid., 106.

“It’s our culture”: Anson Dorrance, head coach of the University of North Carolina’s women’s soccer team, in an interview with the author, August 21, 2015.

the Beep Test: Luc A. Léger, D. Mercier, C. Gadoury, and J. Lambert, “The Multistage 20 Metre Shuttle Run Test for Aerobic Fitness,” Journal of Sports Sciences 6 (1988): 93–101.

“this is a test of your mentality”: Dorrance, in an interview with the author, September 30, 2015.

“language is everything”: Dimon, interview.

“making you happy”: George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy (New York: Penguin, 1903), 32. The original passage reads: “This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one . . . the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.”

the Bugle Notes: West-Point.org, “Bugle Notes,” accessed February 10, 2015, http://www.west-point.org/academy/malo-wa/inspirations/buglenotes.html.

“than to make an army”: Major General John M. Schofield, former superintendent of the United States Military Academy, address to cadets, August 11, 1879.

“the yelling and screaming”: Lieutenant General Robert L. Caslen, superintendent of the United States Military Academy, in an interview with the author, September 4, 2015.

less than 2 percent: Data provided by the United States Military Academy.

“allows you to get there”: Carroll, Win Forever, 183.

“they can demonstrate passion”: “Pete Carroll Returns to USC, Full Interview, 2014,” YouTube video, 1:57:42, posted March 20, 2014, https://youtube/jSizvISegnE.

“they’re helping me to get better”: Earl Thomas, “Take Nothing for Granted,” Earl Thomas’s blog, January 25, 2014, http://www.earlthomas.com/2014/01/25/take-nothing-granted.

“the worst call in NFL history”: Don Banks, “The Worst Play Call in NFL History Will Continue to Haunt Seahawks in 2015,” Sports Illustrated, July 21, 2015.

“failure is never fatal”: “The Wizard’s Wisdom: ‘Woodenism,’?” ESPN, June 5, 2010.

“And use it. Use it!”: Greg Bishop, “Pete Carroll, NFL’s Eternal Optimist, Is Ready to Turn Heartbreak into Triumph,” Sports Illustrated, August 3, 2015, http://www.si.com/nfl/2015/07/28/pete-carroll-seattle-seahawks-2015-season-super-bowl-xlix.





CHAPTER 13: CONCLUSION


hand in hand with well-being: Victoria Young, Yuchen Lin, and Angela L. Duckworth, “Associations Between Grit and Subjective Well-Being in a Large Sample of US Adults,” poster presented at the 16th Annual Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Long Beach, CA, February 2015.