It was the spring of 1967. The producers at WQED, a small public television station in Pittsburgh, had a problem.

“They had launched a children’s program—an odd, quiet little show that aired across the East Coast—and now that show was out of sponsorship money,” Daniel Coyle writes in his book Flourish: The Art of Building Meaning, Joy, and Fulfillment.

The producers worried the show would be a tough sell … continue reading