The Best Way To Solve A Problem?

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.

[it's] Troubling Because It Reminds Us How Difficult It Is To Prove Anything. We Like To Pretend That Our Experiments Define The Truth For Us. But That's Often Not The Case. Just Because An Idea Is True Doesn't Mean It Can Be Proved. And Just Because An Idea Can Be Proved Doesn't Mean It's True. When The Experiments Are Done, We Still Have To Choose What To Believe.

To Have A Style Is To Be Stuck.

Creativity Shouldn't Be Seen As Something Otherworldly. It Shouldn't Be Thought Of As A Process Reserved For Artists And Inventors And Other 'creative Types.' The Human Mind, After All, Has The Creative Impulse Built Into Its Operating System, Hard-wired Into Its Most Essential Programming Code. At Any Given Moment, The Brain Is Automatically Forming New Associations, Continually Connecting An Everyday X To An Unexpected Y.

By The Age Of 3, Children From Wealthier Households Hear, On Average, About 500,000 Encouragements And 80,000 Discouragements. The Ratio Is Reversed In Households On Welfare.