Time Quote by Jonah Lehrer

““When you overthink at the wrong moment, you cut yourself off from the wisdom of your emotions, which are much better at assessing actual preferences. You lose the ability to know what you really want. And then you choose the worst strawberry jam.””

Jonah Lehrer

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It's a hard thing to describe. It's just this sense that you got something to say.

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“When the mind is denied the emotional sting of losing , it never figures out how to win.”

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“Insights, after all, come from the overlap between seemingly unrelated thoughts. They emerge when concepts are transposed, when the rules of one place are…

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“Every brilliant experiment, like every great work of art, starts with an act of imagination. Unfortunately, our current culture subscribes to a very narrow…

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“You break out of the box by stepping into shackles. From Imagine: How Creativity Works pg 23 (hardcover)”

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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…

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“In fact, most of us see perseverance as a distinctly uncreative approach, the sort of strategy that people with mediocre ideas are forced to…

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Grit is the stubborn refusal to quit.

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“Even when alternative views are clearly wrong, being exposed to them still expands our creative potential. In a way, the power of dissent is…

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Cities force us to interact with strangers and with the strange. They pry the mind open. And that is why they are the idea…

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Distance and difference are the secret tonic of creativity. When we get home, home is still the same. But something in our mind has…

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