| I. THE THEORY | |
• | The GAM Theory of Personality and Creativity | 1:1 |
• | Why Mozart and Not Salieri? | 1:2 |
• | The Fourteen GAM-Challenged Personality Families | 1:3 |
• | Why GAM? | 1:4 |
• | Creativity via a Detour Abroad | 1:6 |
• | Breaking Out of Scripts or Not Having Them? | 1:7 |
• | GAM's Hedgehogs and GAM's Foxes | 1:9 |
• | The Long Term Effect of Power on Creativity | 1:11 |
• | The Creativogenicity of GAM/DP and the War of the Scripts | 1:22 |
• | The New Volunteerism as the Ultimate Division of Power | 1:27 |
• | Lord Acton's Law of Power, and its Four Corollaries | 1:28 |
• | Gifted/Talented Children (High GxA) Will (Should) Become Successful
Professionals; Challenged Children Will (Should) Become Geniuses
| 3:1 |
• | In Praise of Pruning and on the Dangers of Success | 3:3 |
• | Why Berlinian Fox or Hedgehog? | 3:7 |
• | The Creative Process | 4:27 |
• | Truth | 4:28 |
• | Positive Psychology | 4:29 |
• | Synopsis of the GAM/DP Theory | 4:30 |
• | High Creativity Demands Misfortunes Which Minimize Adolescent Peer Influences | 5:3 |
• | DP Creative Thinking Versus Exhaustive Dialectical Thinking | 5:17 |
• | Reading the Berlinian Examples of Hedgehogs and Foxes in GAM terms | 6:11 |
| II. THE PERSONS | |
• | Ariosto | Ariosto's Pessimism and the Life of a Renaissance Courtier | 2:3 |
• | Baden-Powell | GAM Universalist, therefore Berlininan Hedgehog | 6:6 |
• | Berlin | The Berlinian Arch-Fox Isaiah Berlin | 4:6 |
• | Berlin | Isaiah Berlin: Alchemist/Fox | 6:5 |
• | Bonhoeffer | Bonhoeffer: Challenged and Highly Creative by Choice,
Not Misfortune | 5:10 |
• | Calvino | Calvino, Like Goethe, Was a Berlinian Fox by Being a
GAM Alchemist | 3:5 |
• | Canetti | The Making of a Special Insular Personality: Canetti | 4:22 |
• | Charlemagne | Charlemagne, First of the Moderns? | 2:11 |
• | Ford | Let the Cobbler Stick to His Last! No, Wrong Advice,
Especially to a Universalist-Architect like Ford | 4:9 |
• | Gadamer | Gadamer: Universalist-Seeker | 5:5 |
• | Goethe | Calvino, Like Goethe, Was a Berlinian Fox by Being a
GAM Alchemist | 3:5 |
• | Hawthorne | Nathaniel Hawthorne: GAM Radiologist-Universalist-Miner | 4:2 |
• | James Royce | Maître Renard James Joyce | 1:10 |
• | Heidegger | Was Heidegger a Seeker Personality? And How about Other
Existentialist Philosophers and Psychologists? | 1:26 |
• | Keynes | Keynes: Seeker-Alchemist-Miner | 5:1 |
• | Klee | Paul Klee: GAM Miner | 3:1 |
• | Leonardo | Leonardo's (and Ruzante's) Misfortune of Illegitimate Birth | 5:7 |
• | Leonardo | Leonardo's Sixteen Incongruous Horses in His Adoration of
the Magi | 5:8 |
• | Lincoln | How the Mind of Young Abraham Lincoln Was Shaped by
the Creativogenic Misfortune of Relative Father Failure | 4:7 |
• | Michelangelo | In Whose Company Is God in Michelangelo's Creation of Adam? | 5:32 |
• | Moravia | Alberto Moravia, Down-to-Earth Radiologist | 4:4 |
• | Mozart | Why Mozart and Not Salieri? | 1:2 |
• | Mozart | No Schroeder! Mozart's Don Giovanni Did Not Deny God | 5:9 |
• | Nietzsche | Nietzsche as GAM Radiologist | 2:9 |
• | Pasteur | Pasteur and John Nash: GAM Seekers | 5:2 |
• | Piaget | Why Berlinian Fox or Hedgehog? | 3:7 |
• | Planck | Max Planck: A Non-Challenged Personality | 5:4 |
• | Power | Eileen Power: Alchemist and Universalist, Fox and Hedgehog | 5:31 |
• | Pushkin | Aleksandr Pushkin, GAM Miner and Trapper, Therefore
Berlinian Arch-Fox | 4:3 |
• | Romain Rolland | Hedgehog and Seeker-Universalist | 6:7 |
• | Roosevelt | Roosevelt's Poliomyelitis at Age 39: GAM's Pruning | 5:6 |
• | Salieri | Why Mozart and Not Salieri? | 1:2 |
• | Shakespeare | GAM Alchemist and Berlinian Fox | 6:8 |
• | Tagore | Tagore's High GxAxMxDP | 6:1 |
• | Darwin & Newton | From Shortage of Scripts, to Enlarged Curiosity, to Scientific Discoveries | 1:8 |
• | Boccaccio, Petrarch, Chaucer | But Weren't Also the Classics at Fault? On the Griselda by Boccaccio,
Petrarch, Chaucer | 2:2 |
• | Baudelaire, Natsume, De Kooning, Munch, Newton, Sartre | The GAM Miner Personality | 2:10 |
• | Emerson and Whitman | Emerson and Whitman: Foxes; Emerson Transcendentalist Arch-Fox and
Universalist-Alchemist; Whitman Fox and Alchemist | 6:2 |
• | Jephthah, Alexander Hamilton | GAM Trappers Military Commanders | 3:6 |
• | Naipaul, Said, Cervantes, Montaigne, Marx, Freud, Napoleon, Endo | GAM Leadsmen Are Not Parkian Marginal Men | 4:1 |
• | Solzhenitsyn, Goethe, Picasso | Deliberately More Hedgehog (Solzhenitsyn), or More Fox (Goethe, Picasso) | 4:5 |
• | Carnegie, Eastman, Ford, Watson, Revson, Walton, Noyce | |
| | Further Evidence for GAM: At Least Five of the Seven Giants of
Enterprise of Tedlow Were Challenged Personalities | 4:8 |
• | Calderón de la Barca, Cervantes, Lope de Vega | |
| | In Praise of Calderón de la Barca, Cervantes and Lope de Vega
(Anti-Aristocratic, Challenged Spanish Writers of the Siglo de Oro) | 5:26 |
• | Cervantes and Unamuno | No, Unamuno, Don Quixote Did Not Suffer of "Herostratism" | 5:33 |
• | Tolkien, C.S. Lewis | Tolkien Universalist -- Lewis Universalist-Miner | 6:4 |
• | Twain and Grosz | Twain and Grosz Critical Jesters from the Misfortune of Family Downfall
not so Emerson and Whitman | 6:3 |
• | Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Simone de Beauvoir, St. Teresa of Avila, St. Edith Stein,
Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil, Selma Lagerlöf, Sigrid Undset, Marie Curie |
| | Nine Eminent Women: Seven Hedgehogs and Two Foxes | 6:10 |
| III. CIVILIZATIONS AND COUNTRIES | |
• | Argentina | An Ethnopsychological Explanation of Argentina's Difficulties | 4:16 |
• | Burgundy | The Contrasting Results of the Unity of Power of the Dukes of
Burgundy and the Division of Power of the Tuscan Communes | 2:1 |
• | Byzantium | Low Creativity and High Unity of Power of the Byzantine
Civilization | 1:14 |
• | China | Did The Mandarins Kill the Chinese Civilization? | 2:7 |
• | China | Solving the Enigma of the Decline and Fall of Creativity in
Imperial China | 6:13 |
• | China | Anticipating More Changes: A Chinese Insular Virtue from
Necessity | 4:20 |
• | China | More on the Contrast Between Chinese and Western
Ethnopsychologies | 6:14 |
• | Egypt | The Origins, Decline and Fall of the Egyptian Civilization | 1:19 |
• | England | The Church's Involuntary but Major Contribution to the
Development of the English Parliament | 2:12 |
• | England | The Liberating Power of the English Bible Under DP | 3:11 |
• | England | The Famed English and Japanese Imperturbability and its Causes | 4:26 |
• | England | No English Sonderweg Without the Humiliation of King Henry II
and the Cult of St. Thomas Becket | 6:26 |
• | England | Has the British UP Class System Insularized People? Are
Soccer Hooligans Radical Insulars? | 6:27 |
• | France | The French as UP Neo-Romans | 2:5 |
• | France | Writing or no One's Memoirs? No in Spain: Life is a Universal
Toothache; Yes in France: Life is Scrupulous Enjoyment | 6:22 |
• | France | Was Sartre's, Flaubert's and Moličre's Flogging og the
Bourgeois a Disservice to France? | 6:23 |
• | France | French UP Literature Versus Italian (and English) DP
Literature - Part I | 6:24 |
• | France | French UP Literature Versus Italian DP Literature - Part II | 6:25 |
• | Germany | The Ritter (Knight/Warrior) Personality of the Germans--Are
the Germans the Last of the Medievals? | 1:25 |
• | Germany | Why the Famous German Kultur Failed - Part I | 5:16 |
• | Germany | Why the Famous German Kultur Failed - Part II | 6:18 |
• | Germany | Why the Famous German Kultur Failed - Part III | 6:19 |
• | Germany | Why the Famous German Kultur Failed - Part IV | 6:20 |
• | Germany | The UP Cause for Goethe's "Renunciation": the Power of
Duke Carl August | 6:21 |
• | Italy | No Canossas--No Contemporary Division of Power | 1:23 |
• | Italy | Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Sacchetti, Visitors | 1:24 |
• | Italy | The Contrasting Results of the Unity of Power of the Dukes of
Burgundy and the Division of Power of the Tuscan Communes | 2:1 |
• | Italy | The Italian Riconquista of 951-1369 and the Making of the
Visitor Personality | 3:13 |
• | Japan | The Strict Ritter Personality of the Japanese | 3:9 |
• | Japan | Interpreting Three Recent Studies on the Contrast between the
Japanese and American Ethnopsychology | 4:21 |
• | Japan | The Harsh Rejection of Three Japanese Visitor Heroes | 5:29 |
• | Japan | The Japanese "Ripple Effect", or Be Careful of Okami (the
Powers that Be) - the Harsh Rejection of Three Japanese Visitor Heroes | 6:15 |
• | Judaism | The High Creativity of Rabbinic Judaism and its Talmud | 6:12 |
• | Russia | In Supping with the Tsar the Russian Church Lacked a Long Spoon | 4:17 |
• | Russia | How Did Nineteenth-Century Russia Produce So Many Great Men? | 5:27 |
• | Scotland | The DP Origins of the Scottish Enlightenment | 1:18 |
• | Spain | The Spaniards as UP Hidalgos | 2:6 |
• | Spain | Writing or not One's Memoirs? No in Spain: Life is a Universal
Toothache; Yes in France: Life is Scrupulous Enjoyment | 6:22 |
• | Switzerland | The Origins of the Swiss Confederation | 1:17 |
• | USA | The DP Origins of the United States | 1:15 |
• | USA | Americans as Gothic Foxes, Latin-Americans as Baroque
Hedgehogs | 1:16 |
• | USA | Tom Sawyer and the Invention of a Visitor Sport | 2:4 |
• | USA | How Did Eighteenth-Century America Produce So Many
Great Men? | 5:25 |
• | Venice | Why did Venice Have no Great Writers When It Had Great
Painters, Architects and Musicians? | 4:13 |
• | Venice | The Decline and Fall of Venice - Lack of Great Writers and
Thinkers | 6:16 |
• | Venice | Goldoni - Domestic Visitor | 6:17 |
• | Zangskar | How Sad for the Buddhist Nuns That Mondino's DP Scientific
Medicine Has Not Yet Reached Zangskar | 6:30 |
| VI. OTHER DP SUBJECTS | |
• | The Western Shift to Quantification Perception in the Thirteenth and
Fourteenth Centuries as Additional Evidence for the DP Theory | 3:10 |
• | Religious DP Precursors of Canossa | 3:12 |
• | UP Corrupts the Supremo, Who Then Corrupts Others | 3:14 |
• | Much Vanity Under UP | 3:15 |
• | UP Saints versus DP Saints | 4:12 |
• | Against UP Therefore Against Castiglione | 4:23 |
• | More on Lord Acton's Law of Power | 4:24 |
• | Expanding on Three Historical "What If?" | 5:28 |
• | No, Ritter Kant: That Is Not the Greatest Problem for the Human Race | 5:11 |
• | Lay Rulers Corrupted the Christian Church(es) | 5:12 |
• | No, C. P. Snow: Your Expectations of Educated People Are Absurd | 5:15 |
• | Volunteerism as Maslow's Self-Actualization | 5:18 |
• | Modern Volunteerism: Involvement by Intellectuals Needed | 5:19 |
• | The DP Origin of Religious Tolerance and the Respect for Human Rights | 5:20 |
• | UP Orthodoxy Versus DP Orthopraxy | 5:21 |
• | No, Huntington: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights Deserves More
Praise | 5:22 |
• | DP and UP in Classical Arab and Persian Stories, the Nights in particular | 6:28 |
• | Why so many Orientalists from the West, and no Occidentalists from the East | 6:29 |
• | Choosing the Right Images for the Euro Bills, and the Right Parts from the
Historical/Cultural Inheritance | 6:38 |