Gaining Gumption

When I was a cab driver, a passenger told me he was a professor at the Rockefeller University, which has the world’s highest percentage of science Nobel Prize winners. I jokingly said, “I’m not letting you out this cab until you give me a job.” A week later, I went from lowly cab driver to Rockefeller research assistant, working on the first research to prove that biofeedback worked.

As I look back on my life and think about my successful clients and friends, gumption is an underdiscussed key to success.

My PsychologyToday.com article today is Gaining Gumption.