1.Leslie Williams, interview with author, Shepherdstown,West Virginia, October 7, 2014.
2.Laura Vanderkam, "Are You As Busy As You Think?,"Wall Street Journal (February 22, 2012). http://www.wsj.com/articles/ SB10001424052970203358704577237603853394654.
3. Joseph De Feo and Joseph Juran, Juran’s Quality Handbook(New York: McGraw-Hill, 2010).
4. Ashley Parker, "On Senate Menu, Bean Soup and a Serving of‘Hyperpartisanship,' " New York Times (August 20, 2014): A1.
5.Timothy D. Wilson et al., "Just Think: The Challenges of the Disengaged Mind," Science 345, no. 6192 (July 4, 2014):75–77.
6. Kate Murphy, "No Time to Think," New York Times (July 27, 2014): SR3.
7.Ibid.
8. Michael Matteson and John Ivancevich, Managing Job Stress and Health: The Intelligent Person's Guide (New York: Free Press, 1982), p. 36.
9. John Maynard Keynes, "Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren," in Essays in Persuasion (New York: Norton,1963), 358–373.
10.Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh (New York: Penguin,1983), 107–108.
11.Dale Carnegie, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living(New York: Simon and Schuster, 1948), 129.
12.Jeanne Whalen, "Read This as Slowly as You Can," The Wall Street Journal (September 16, 2014): D1.
13.Robert S. Wilson et al., "Life-Span Cognitive Activity, Neuropathologic Burden, and Cognitive Aging," Neurology 81 no. 4 (July 23, 2013): 314–321.
