Leo Widrich shares many strategies to increasing our creativity in his article, Why we have our best ideas in the shower: The science of creativity (thanks, Titania Richard).
The Inverse Correlation Between Knowledge and Confidence
A sign of intelligence is an awareness of one’s own ignorance. —Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. —William Shakespeare, As You Like It (1599) Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it. —Voltaire (1694-1778) It has… Continue reading The Inverse Correlation Between Knowledge and Confidence
On Discovery
Marcel Proust The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
What Invisible Gorillas Tell You About Your Future
NPR’s article, Why Even Radiologists Can Miss A Gorilla Hiding In Plain Sight discusses work by Harvard Medical School attention researchers Trafton Drew and Jeremy Wolfe, who find that radiologists overwhelmingly fail to see a gorilla placed on MRIs; implications of this study apply to everyone and how our expectations shape how we perceive (and fail… Continue reading What Invisible Gorillas Tell You About Your Future
Something Unknown
Early 20th century British astrophysicist Arthur Eddington on the nature of God and the cosmos: “Something unknown is doing we don’t know what.”
Quote of the Day
Edward Abbey: “When the fight begins within himself, a man’s worth something.”