You Know More Than You Know.

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.

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.

The Best Way To Solve A Problem? Try Explaining It To Somebody Outside Your Field.

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.

The Inconsistency Of Genius Is A Consistent Theme Of Creativity.