It Is Not The Hearing That Improves

Problems Are Solved Only When We Devote A Great Deal Of Attention To Them And In A Creative Way...to Have A Good Life, It Is Not Enough To Remove What Is Wrong With It. We Also Need A Positive Goal, Otherwise Why Keep Going? Creativity Is One Answer To That Question - It Provides One Of The Most Exciting Models For Living.

But Shortcuts Are Dangerous; We Cannot Delude Ourselves That Our Knowledge Is Further Along Than It Actually Is.

I Have Devoted 30 Years Of Research To How Creative People Live And Work, To Make More Understandable The Mysterious Process By Which They Come Up With New Ideas And New Things. [...] If I Had To Express In One Word What Makes Their Personalities Different From Others, It's Complexity. They Show Tendencies Of Thought And Action That In Most People Are Segregated. They Contain Contradictory Extremes; Instead Of Being An "individual", Each Of Them Is A "multitude".

It Is How We Choose What We Do, And How We Approach It, That Will Determine Whether The Sum Of Our Days Adds Up To A Formless Blur, Or To Something Resembling A Work Of Art.

Write Down Each Day What Surprised You And How You Surprised Others. When Something Strikes A Spark Of Interest, Follow It.