How do we regulate our emotions? The answer is surprisingly simple: by thinking about them. The prefrontal cortex allows each of us to contemplate hi….

While human nature largely determines how we hear the notes, it is nurture that lets us hear the music..

It doesn't matter if people are playing jazz or writing poetry. If they want to be successful, they need to learn how to persist and persevere and ke….

The answer will only arrive after we stop looking for it..

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..

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..

To have a style is to be stuck..

In fact, the only way to remain creative over time--to not be undone by our expertise--is to experiment with ignorance, to stare at things we don't f….

there simply is no way to describe the past without lying. Our memories are not like fiction. They are fiction..

People assume that they perceive reality as it is, that our senses accurately record the outside world. Yet the science suggests that, in important w….

The inconsistency of genius is a consistent theme of creativity..

Grit is the stubborn refusal to quit..

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 somet….

Creativity is a spark. It can be excruciating when we're rubbing two rocks together and getting nothing. And it can be intensely satisfying when the ….

We need to be willing to risk embarrassment, ask silly questions, surround ourselves with people who don't know what we're talking about. We need to ….

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 yo….

What you discover when you look at creativity from the perspective of the brain is that it is universal. We're all creative all of the time, we can't….

The great ages did not perhaps produce much more talent than ours,' [T.S.] Eliot wrote. 'But less talent was wasted..

The best way to solve a problem? Try explaining it to somebody outside your field..

You know more than you know..

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 Pic….