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We Travel Because We Need To, Because 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. Several New Science Papers Suggest That Getting Away Is An Essential Habit Of Effective Thinking. When We Escape From The Place We Spend Most Of Our Time, The Mind Is Suddenly Made Aware Of All Those Errant Ideas We'd Previously Suppressed. We Start Thinking About Obscure Possibilitiebsthat Never Would Have Occurred To Us If We'd Stayed Home.

If You're Trying To Be More Creative, One Of The Most Important Things You Can Do Is Increase The Volume And Diversity Of The Information To Which You Are Exposed.

It Doesn't Matter If People Are Playing Jazz Or Writing Poetry. If They Want To Be Successful, They Need To Learn How To Persist And Persevere And Keep On Working Until The Work Is Done... I Bet There Isn't A Single Highly Successful Person Who Has Not Depended On Grit. Nobody Is Talented Enough To Not Have To Work Hard, And That's What Grit Allows You To Do.

Even When Alternative Views Are Clearly Wrong, Being Exposed To Them Still Expands Our Creative Potential. In A Way, The Power Of Dissent Is The Power Of Surprise. After Hearing Someone Shout Out An Errant Answer, We Work To Understand It, Which Causes Us To Reassess Our Initial Assumptions And Try Out New Perspectives. “authentic Dissent Can Be Difficult, But It’s Always Invigorating,” Nemeth Says. “it Wakes Us Right Up.”

Rejection Process Is Not Fun. It's The Red Pen On The Page, The Discarded Sketch, Sometimes Is The Only Way Forward.