To Have A Style Is To Be

In Fact, The Only Way To Remain Creative Over Time--to Not Be Undone By Our Expertise--is To Experiment With Ignorance, To Stare At Things We Don't Fully Understand.

Creativity Is Not A Trait That We Inherit In Our Genes Or A Blessing Bestowed By The Angels. It's A Skill.

Distance And Difference Are The Secret Tonic Of Creativity. When We Get Home, Home Is Still The Same. But Something In Our Mind Has Been Changed, And That Changes Everything.

I Always Wanted To Be A Scientist, I Always Thought I'd Be A Scientist, That Was The Narrative I Was Carrying Around. I Worked In A Neuroscience Lab As An Undergraduate And Then After, Almost Five Years In Total, But I Realized I Just Wasn't Good At Science. I Didn't Have The Discipline For It.

How Do We Regulate Our Emotions? The Answer Is Surprisingly Simple: By Thinking About Them. The Prefrontal Cortex Allows Each Of Us To Contemplate His Or Her Own Mind, A Talent Psychologists Call Metacognition. We Know When We Are Angry; Every Emotional State Comes With Self-awareness Attached, So That An Individual Can Try To Figure Out Why He's Feeling What He's Feeling. If The Particular Feeling Makes No Sense—if The Amygdala Is Simply Responding To A Loss Frame, For Example—then It Can Be Discounted. The Prefrontal Cortex Can Deliberately Choose To Ignore The Emotional Brain.