Bill Dorris Ph DI have a Ph.D. in Social & Clinical Psychology from UCLA, and have published in JPSP, J. Pers, and other APA-refereed research journals. Early on I was a member of the Psychology Faculties at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and Mount Holyok College. Later I worked as a family systems therapist in the States and Ireland for several years. In between times I wrote and presented a radio program on WMUA in Amherst ('Dr Bill's Myths, Lies, Facts, and Songs'). In more recent years, in addition to a course on 'Social Systems, Communications, and Psycho- logy', I've been teaching the likes of 'Organisational Communications' and 'Creative Writing' at Dublin City University. I spent over 15 years sorting the initial version of this book, entitled: The Arrival of the Fittest: How The Great Become Great (Dorris, 2011). It received very strong endorsements from a number of internationally prominent academics. These are on my blog: http: //www.greatnessbd.com/ For example, here's a starter, or as you baseball fans would have it, a closer. Well actually - if you know anything about the research literature on genius & greatness - the closer: "Arrival is a truly fascinating book. It's not only highly informative, but also equally inspiring!" Dean Keith Simonton, Ph.D. Distinguished Professor Department of Psychology University of California, Davis Since then several editors have offered me very helpful advice re rewriting my work in a style which would make it publishable as academic research... which I suppose is reasonable since well over half of it is still brand new to the research literature. And after that I'd no doubt get stuck into working up a few sets of exam questions and next thing you know.. hey.. we'd all be nodding off. So instead I've added some new faces - Marie Curie, Darwin, Mark Twain, Bob Marley, the Williams sisters, etc. - and gone for a new, and hopefully 'Google- friendly', title: Greatness: How The Great Become Great... and You & I Don't. Read More Read Less
