Jonah Lehrer Quotes about Creativity

We travel because we need to, because distance and difference are the secret tonic of creativity. When we get home, home is still the same. But something in our mind has been changed, and that changes everything.

We travel because we need to, because distance and difference are the secret tonic of creativity. When we get home, home is still the same. But something in our mind has been changed, and that changes everything. Several new science papers suggest that getting away is an essential habit of effective thinking. When we escape from the place we spend most of our time, the mind is suddenly made aware of all those errant ideas we'd previously suppressed. We start thinking about obscure possibilitiebsthat never would have occurred to us if we'd stayed home.

Jonah Lehrer

Distance, Home, Creativity

Creativity is a spark. It can be excruciating when we're rubbing two rocks together and getting nothing. And it can be intensely satisfying when the flame catches and a new idea sweeps around the world.

Jonah Lehrer

Creativity, Rocks, Flames

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.

Jonah Lehrer

Creativity, Perspective, Creative

"Jonah Lehrer: We can all be as creative as Picasso... we just have to learn how". Interview with Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2012.

The inconsistency of genius is a consistent theme of creativity.

Jonah Lehrer

Creativity, Creating, Genius

"How Do We Identify Good Ideas?" by Jonah Lehrer, www.wired.com. January 23, 2012.

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.

Jonah Lehrer

Creativity, Artist, Creative

Jonah Lehrer (2008). “Proust Was a Neuroscientist”, p.20, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Creativity is not a trait that we inherit in our genes or a blessing bestowed by the angels. It's a skill.

Jonah Lehrer

Creativity, Angel, Blessing

The only way to maximize group creativity—to make the whole more than the sum of its parts—is to encourage a candid discussion of mistakes. In part, this is because the acceptance of error reduces cost. When you believe your flaws will be quickly corrected by the group, you're less worried about perfecting your contribution, which leads to a more candid conversation. We can only get it right when we talk about what we got wrong.

Jonah Lehrer

Mistake, Believe, Creativity

Creativity is a catchall term for a variety of distinct thought processes.

Jonah Lehrer

Creativity, Process, Term

Jonah Lehrer (2008). “Proust Was a Neuroscientist”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

Jonah Lehrer

Distance, Home, Creativity

Jonah Lehrer Quotes about Creativity

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