By Byron McNutt

THE LATE, GREAT newspaper, TV and radio personality Paul Harvey always said: successful people have one thing in common—they all practice positive thinking.

“The world is comprised in large part by two kinds of people,” Harvey said, “those who say it can’t be done, and those who go ahead and do it anyway.”

I’m sure many people thought “Fearless Felix” Baumgartner, the 43-year-old Austrian daredevil, was insane for going through with his dramatic skydive (free fall) from the stratosphere 24 miles above the New Mexico desert Oct. 14. He said it was a calculated risk.