Rejection Process Is Not Fun. It's 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 Leave Behind The Safety Of Our Expertise.

...new Ideas Are Merely Several Old Thoughts That Occur At The Exact Same Time.

Knowledge Can Be A Subtle Curse. When We Learn About The World, We Also Learn All The Reasons Why The World Cannot Be Changed. We Get Used To Our Failures And Imperfections. We Become Numb To The Possibilities Of Something New

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.

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.