You Know More Than You Know.

It Is Ironic But True: The One Reality Science Cannot Reduce Is The Only Reality We Will Ever Know. This Is Why We Need Art. By Expressing Our Actual Experience, The Artist Reminds Us That Our Science Is Incomplete, That No Map Of Matter Will Ever Explain The Immateriality Of Our Consciousness.

The Imagination Is Unleashed By Constraints. You Break Out Of The Box By Stepping Into Shackles.

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.

Grit Is The Stubborn Refusal To Quit.

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.