Like A Work Of Art, We Exceed

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.

People Assume That They Perceive Reality As It Is, That Our Senses Accurately Record The Outside World. Yet The Science Suggests That, In Important Ways, People Experience Reality Not As It Is, But As They Expect It To Be.

Harlow Would Later Write, "if Monkeys Have Taught Us Anything, It's That You've Got To Learn How To Love Before You Learn How To Live.

The Vocational Approach At Nocca (new Orleans Center For The Creative Arts) Helps Build Grit In Students. It Teaches Them How To Be Single-minded In Pursuit Of A Goal, To Sacrifice For The Sake Of A Passion. The Teachers Demand Hard Work From Their Kids Because They Know, From Personal Experience, That Creative Success Requires Nothing Less.

I Want To Give People Theories, I Want To Expose Them To Scientific Stories That Force Them To Re-evaluate The Way They Use These Three Pounds Of Meat Inside Their Head.