The creative edge : insights from the lives of the world's most famous outsiders /
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Milton Qld. :
Wiley,
2008.
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Table of Contents:
- Pt. 1. The cultural icons. Elvis Presley: kinky king of rock 'n' roll
- John Lennon: troubled but brilliant Beatle
- Madonna: exhibitionist pop diva
- Angelina Jolie: down-to-earth sex goddess
- Brad Pitt: celluloid chick magnet
- JK Rowling: spellbinding storyteller
- Dan Brown: cloak-and-dagger heretic
- Andy Warhol: eccentric art phenomenon
- Frida Kahlo: flamboyantly tragic artist
- Albert Einstein: physicist who escaped to the cosmos
- Sigmund Freud: psychoanalyst trapped by his own Oedipal complex
- Walt Disney: tyrannical nostalgia mogul
- Coco Chanel: fashion liberator
- Amelia Earhart: accident-prone aviatrix
- Edmund Hillary: Everest's unexpected conqueror
- Tiger Woods: self-programmed golf wizard
- David Beckham: fastidious football star
- pt. 2. Insights. The common factors
- What are outsiders?
- Outsiders are made early
- Intelligence and other advantages
- Creative edge
- Inventing their own lives
- Creative or crazy?
- Paying the piper
- Ten tips for aspiring cultural icons.