“What you discover when you look at creativity from the perspective of the brain is that it is universal. We're all creative all of the time, we can't help but be creative.” LooksHelpingBrainCreativityCreativePerspectiveUniversalBe Creative Author:Jonah Lehrer
“Creativity shouldn't be seen as something otherworldly. It shouldn't be thought of as a process reserved for artists and inventors and other 'creative types.' The human mind, after all, has the creative impulse built into its operating system, hard-wired into its most essential programming code. At any given moment, the brain is automatically forming new associations, continually connecting an everyday x to an unexpected y.” MindHumansHardMomentsArtistGivenProcessBrainCreativityCreativeTypeEssentialsBuiltEverydayImpulseCodeProgrammingUnexpectedHuman MindAssociationConnectingInventorReservedOperating Systems Book:Proust Was a Neuroscientist Source: Proust Was a Neuroscientist
“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.” IfsThinkingKnowsTryingMindSelfStatesFeelingsIndividualLossSimpleAnswersEmotionBrainAwarenessTalentFiguresExampleEmotionalParticularSelf AwarenessAngryContemplatingPsychologistResponding Author:Jonah Lehrer
