Try To Be Surprised By Something Every

For Original Ideas To Come About, You Have To Let Them Percolate Under The Level Of Consciousness In A Place Where We Have No Way To Make Them Obey Our Own Desires Or Our Own Direction. Their Random Combinations Are Driven By Forces We Don't Know About.

Half A Century Ago, The Austrian Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl Wrote That Happiness Cannot Be Attained By Wanting To Be Happy - It Must Come As The Unintended Consequence Of Working For A Goal Greater Than Oneself.

Through Learning We Grow, Becoming More Than We Were Before, And In That Sense Learning Is Unselfish, Because It Results In The Transformation Of What We Were Before, A Setting Aside Of The Old Self In Favor Of A More Complex One.

Optimal Experience Is Thus Something That We Make Happen.

It Is When We Act Freely, For The Sake Of The Action Itself Rather Than For Ulterior Motives, That We Learn To Become More Than What We Were.