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So Let's Not Pretend That Travel Is Always Fun. We Don't Spend 10 Hours Lost In The Louvre Because We Like It, And The View From The Top Of Machu Picchu Probably Doesn't Make Up For The Hassle Of Lost Luggage. (more Often Than Not, I Need A Holiday After My Holiday.) 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.

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.

Cities Force Us To Interact With Strangers And With The Strange. They Pry The Mind Open. And That Is Why They Are The Idea That Has Unleashed So Many Of Our New Ideas.

The Answer Will Only Arrive After We Stop Looking For It.

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.”