“You break out of the box by stepping into shackles. From Imagine: How Creativity Works pg 23 (hardcover)” — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
So let's not pretend that travel is always fun. We don't spend 10 hours lost in the Louvre because we like it,… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
“In fact, most of us see perseverance as a distinctly uncreative approach, the sort of strategy that people with mediocre ideas are… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
“Even when alternative views are clearly wrong, being exposed to them still expands our creative potential. In a way, the power of… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
Distance and difference are the secret tonic of creativity. When we get home, home is still the same. But something in our… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
In fact, the only way to remain creative over time--to not be undone by our expertise--is to experiment with ignorance, to stare… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
We travel because we need to, because distance and difference are the secret tonic of creativity. When we get home, home is… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
If you're trying to be more creative, one of the most important things you can do is increase the volume and diversity… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
Every creative story is different. And yet every creative story is the same: There was nothing, now there is something. It's almost… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
The only way to maximize group creativity—to make the whole more than the sum of its parts—is to encourage a candid discussion… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
“The fatal misconception behind brainstorming is that there is a particular script we should all follow in group interactions.... [W]hen the composition… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
Creativity shouldn't be seen as something otherworldly. It shouldn't be thought of as a process reserved for artists and inventors and other… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
“There is something scary about letting ourselves go. It means that we will screw up, that we will relinquish the possibility of… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
Creativity is a catchall term for a variety of distinct thought processes. — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
Creativity is not a trait that we inherit in our genes or a blessing bestowed by the angels. It's a skill. — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
The imagination is unleashed by constraints. You break out of the box by stepping into shackles. — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
“It doesn't matter if people are playing jazz or writing poetry -- if they want to be successful, they need to learn… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
“...Why are corporations so fleeting?...Instead of imitating the freewheeling city, these businesses minimize the very interactions that lead to new ideas. They… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
Children can't help but create: they need to put their mind on the page, they want to paint, to sculpt, to write… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
What you discover when you look at creativity from the perspective of the brain is that it is universal. We're all creative… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
“Every creative journey begins with a problem. It starts with a feeling of frustration, the dull ache of not being able to… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
Creativity is a spark. It can be excruciating when we're rubbing two rocks together and getting nothing. And it can be intensely… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
It's a hard thing to describe. It's just this sense that you got something to say. — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
“When the mind is denied the emotional sting of losing , it never figures out how to win.” — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
“Insights, after all, come from the overlap between seemingly unrelated thoughts. They emerge when concepts are transposed, when the rules of one place are… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
“Every brilliant experiment, like every great work of art, starts with an act of imagination. Unfortunately, our current culture subscribes to a very narrow… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
“You break out of the box by stepping into shackles. From Imagine: How Creativity Works pg 23 (hardcover)” — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
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… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
“In fact, most of us see perseverance as a distinctly uncreative approach, the sort of strategy that people with mediocre ideas are forced to… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
“Even when alternative views are clearly wrong, being exposed to them still expands our creative potential. In a way, the power of dissent is… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
Cities force us to interact with strangers and with the strange. They pry the mind open. And that is why they are the idea… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
Distance and difference are the secret tonic of creativity. When we get home, home is still the same. But something in our mind has… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
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… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
