Jonah Lehrer Quotes

• Grit is the stubborn refusal to quit.

  Jonah Lehrer

  Stubborn, Grit, Quitting

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• 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

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• To have a style is to be stuck.

  Jonah Lehrer

  Style, Stuck

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• 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

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• We need to be willing to risk embarrassment, ask silly questions, surround ourselves with people who don't know what we're talking about. We need to leave behind the safety of our expertise.

  Jonah Lehrer

  Tonto, Hablar, Gente

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• The best way to solve a problem? Try explaining it to somebody outside your field.

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  Leadership, Trying, Way

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• 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.

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• If you're trying to be more creative, one of the most important things you can do is increase the volume and diversity of the information to which you are exposed.

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  Diversity, Creative, Important

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• People assume that they perceive reality as it is, that our senses accurately record the outside world. Yet the science suggests that, in important ways, people experience reality not as it is, but as they expect it to be.

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  Realidad, Gente, Importante

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• The answer will only arrive after we stop looking for it.

  Jonah Lehrer

  Respuestas

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• You know more than you know.

  Jonah Lehrer

  Conoce

  Jonah Lehrer (2010). “How We Decide”, p.248, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In fact, the only way to remain creative over time--to not be undone by our expertise--is to experiment with ignorance, to stare at things we don't fully understand.

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  Ignorance, Creative, Way

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• Cuando nos aventuramos más allá del límite de nuestro conocimiento, todo lo que tenemos es arte.

  Jonah Lehrer

  Art, Venture, Edges

  Jonah Lehrer (2011). “Proust Was a Neuroscientist”, p.197, Canongate Books

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• While human nature largely determines how we hear the notes, it is nurture that lets us hear the music.

  Jonah Lehrer

  Human Nature, Notes, Nurture

  Jonah Lehrer (2008). “Proust Was a Neuroscientist”, p.140, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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.

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• No pretendamos que viajar sea siempre divertido. No nos pasamos 10 horas perdidos en el Louvre porque nos guste, y las vistas desde la cima del Machu Picchu probablemente no compensen la molestia de perder el equipaje. (Viajamos porque lo necesitamos, porque la distancia y la diferencia son la tónica secreta de la creatividad. Cuando llegamos a casa, la casa sigue siendo la misma. Pero algo en nuestra mente ha cambiado, y eso lo cambia todo.

  Jonah Lehrer

  Fun, Distance, Holiday

  "Why we travel" by Jonah Lehrer, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2010.

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• The imagination is unleashed by constraints. You break out of the box by stepping into shackles.

  Jonah Lehrer

  Imagination, Break Out, Boxes

  Jonah Lehrer (2010). “How We Decide”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• there simply is no way to describe the past without lying. Our memories are not like fiction. They are fiction.

  Jonah Lehrer

  Memories, Lying, Past

  Jonah Lehrer (2011). “Proust Was a Neuroscientist”, p.88, Canongate Books

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• Durante demasiado tiempo hemos dado por sentado que existe un único modelo de naturaleza humana, y por eso diagnosticamos la mayoría de las desviaciones como trastornos. Pero la realidad es que hay muchos tipos diferentes de mentes. Y eso es muy bueno.

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  Reality, Long, Mind

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• It doesn't matter if people are playing jazz or writing poetry. If they want to be successful, they need to learn how to persist and persevere and keep on working until the work is done... I bet there isn't a single highly successful person who has not depended on grit. Nobody is talented enough to not have to work hard, and that's what grit allows you to do.

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  Success, Hard Work, Writing

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• ¿Cómo regulamos nuestras emociones? La respuesta es sorprendentemente sencilla: pensando en ellas. El córtex prefrontal permite a cada uno de nosotros contemplar su propia mente, un talento que los psicólogos denominan metacognición. Sabemos cuándo estamos enfadados; cada estado emocional lleva aparejada la autoconciencia, de modo que un individuo puede intentar averiguar por qué siente lo que siente. Si el sentimiento concreto no tiene sentido -si la amígdala está respondiendo simplemente a un marco de pérdida, por ejemplo-, entonces puede descartarse. El córtex prefrontal puede decidir deliberadamente ignorar al cerebro emocional.

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  Loss, Simple, Emotional

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• La creatividad no debe verse como algo de otro mundo. No debe considerarse un proceso reservado a artistas, inventores y otros "tipos creativos". Al fin y al cabo, la mente humana tiene el impulso creativo integrado en su sistema operativo, en su código de programación más esencial. En cualquier momento, el cerebro forma automáticamente nuevas asociaciones, conectando continuamente una "x" cotidiana con una "y" inesperada.

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  Creativity, Artist, Creative

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

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• 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.

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  Mistake, Believe, Creativity

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• Knowledge can be a subtle curse. When we learn about the world, we also learn all the reasons why the world cannot be changed. We get used to our failures and imperfections. We become numb to the possibilities of something new

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  Imperfection, World, Reason Why

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• Every creative story is different. And every creative story is the same. There was nothing. Now there is something. It's almost like magic.

  Jonah Lehrer

  Creative, Magic, Different

  "A completely real, not at all plagiarized interview with plagiarist Jonah Lehrer". MobyLives interview, www.mhpbooks.com. November 14, 2014.

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