Publisher's Synopsis
What makes a Grammy-winning musician, an Olympic gold medalist, or a Nobel Prize-winner different from the rest of us? The surprising answer is...nothing.
Through conversations with peak performers from sixteen diverse fields, MASTER MINDS reveals how every journey of mastery, every great achievement, is guided by identical principles-only the vocabulary is unique.
Producer/cameraman David Lent and interviewer Susan Burgess-Lent crisscrossed America on a mission: To test Author George Leonard's theory that people who reach the top of any field - and stay there - share exactly five traits. Their documentary, The 5 Keys to Mastery, confirmed Leonard's discovery.
MASTER MINDS is a collection of the raw, intimate, often startling interviews from this journey, featuring:
- BB KING, blues singer
- CARLOS SANTANA, guitar player
- KELLY CLARK, snowboarder
- STEPHEN TOBOLOWSKY, actor
- SUSAN BURGESS-LENT, social entrepreneur
- ERIC KANDEL, neuroscientist
- WENDY RIEGER, news anchor
- PAUL REED SMITH, guitar maker
- IVANA CHUBBUCK, acting coach
- LINUS TORVALDS, software architect
- DAVID ROSS & FEMI LAWAL, performance poets
- DANA CHLADEK, kayaker
- ANTHONY MANGIERI, pizza maker
- ETIRSA SOUTH, runway model
- GEORGE LEONARD, philosopher
- LAUNI MEILI, sports shooter
