Grit Is The Stubborn Refusal To Quit.

How Do We Regulate Our Emotions? The Answer Is Surprisingly Simple: By Thinking About Them. The Prefrontal Cortex Allows Each Of Us To Contemplate His Or Her Own Mind, A Talent Psychologists Call Metacognition. We Know When We Are Angry; Every Emotional State Comes With Self-awareness Attached, So That An Individual Can Try To Figure Out Why He's Feeling What He's Feeling. If The Particular Feeling Makes No Sense—if The Amygdala Is Simply Responding To A Loss Frame, For Example—then It Can Be Discounted. The Prefrontal Cortex Can Deliberately Choose To Ignore The Emotional Brain.

When We Venture Beyond The Edge Of Our Knowledge, All We Have Is Art.

To Have A Style Is To Be Stuck.

Design Is The Conscious Imposition Of Meaningful Order.

The Inconsistency Of Genius Is A Consistent Theme Of Creativity.