Sublime

Allen’s superpower is that he’s a problem solver. And as long as he is intellectually challenged by the problem and is meeting interesting people and learning how things work, there’s almost no one better at turning chance into opportunity.

Zuckerman’s Sensation Seeking Scale,

also read Descartes’ Error, by the neuroscientist Antonio Damasio.22 Damasio had noticed an unusual pattern of symptoms in patients who had suffered brain damage to a specific part of the brain—the ventromedial (i.e., bottom-middle) prefrontal cortex (abbreviated vmPFC; it’s the region just behind and above the bridge of the nose). Their emotionali

Action: A project is not a passive response to external forces but an intentional sequence of behavior.

Between 1990 and 1995, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and his students exhaustively studied ninety-one exceptional innovators. “If I had to express in one word what makes their personalities different from others,” Csikszentmihalyi noted in Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention, “it would be complexity. By this I mean that they sh

Analytical intelligence is our ability to complete problem-solving tasks such as those typically contained in tests; creative intelligence is our ability to synthesize and apply existing knowledge and skills to deal with new and unusual situations; practical intelligence is our ability to adapt to everyday life—to understand what needs to be done i

The more you have in your tool kit, the greater the range of interventions you will be willing and able to launch, and the more likely they will generate the desired results.

Creativity happens when we are dancing on the edge of chaos.