We Limit Ourselves and Need to Stop

Tuesday, April 24th, 2012

I was watching Stephen Colbert interview Jonah Lehrer, author of Imagine: How Creativity Works. He said something that was very powerful for me, that everyone is creative. It’s one of our species’ better qualities. Lehrer amplified this statement by describing how nearly all second graders describe themselves as creative, but this fraction drops dramatically with […]

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Art and Science: Something Powerful in Common

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

I’ve been thinking about how hard it is to sell stories, to make a living as an artist, and how there are parallels with how hard it is to publish papers and to secure grants in science.   There are some key differences, of course, but there’s something powerful in common, too. As an artist, a […]

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