It was a fantastic interview, Adam! And I loved your book, ANATOMY OF A BREAKTHROUGH.

Reading Annie Murphy Paul's section on Thinking With Movement hits like a revelation. The institutional preference for stationary learning & work is not rooted in how humans learn & work: 'Activity-permissive settings are still the exception...but we ought to make them the rule.'

When Daniel Willingham's daughter ended up in the ICU in a foreign country, a stranger helped him get to her.
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Psychologist and teen whisperer Lisa Damour Lisa Damour, PhD is so brilliant and so wise and so humane.

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In the latest edition of her Science of Creativity newsletter, #LSX alum Annie Murphy Paul explains how intense exercise can lower our inhibitions and allow our creativity to flow.

In today's Science of Creativity newsletter: Novelist Haruki Murakami runs 'in order to acquire a void'—a state of consciousness in which the judging, inhibiting part of the brain goes temporarily offline.

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What do you think—does it look like me?

On last week's episode of the pod, Annie Murphy Paul and I talked anything and everything creativity, including how it is an expression of aliveness and being human and it's connection to curiosity and learning regardless of our age.

For more, listen here: strongskills.co/podcast-feed/m…

'Creativity can be understood as the act of feeling around within the space of what our human brains and bodies are physically able to process—and, in addition, what our brains and bodies experience as inherently appealing and engaging.'

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This made me laugh! Thank you, Liz.

Had a great time chatting with acclaimed science writer Annie Murphy Paul on today's episode of the Intentional Performers Podcast! Tune in to hear us riff on happiness, curiosity, the connection between learning and creativity, and more.

Full Episode: strongskills.co/podcast-feed/m…

It was my great pleasure to work on this episode of Hidden Brain with Daniel Willingham—a brilliant cognitive scientist and a wonderful human being. Give it a listen—Dan is so funny and insightful on the topic of memory.

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It's often assumed that conflict and criticism shut down creativity. But handled correctly, they can supercharge the process of generating original ideas.

In today's Science of Creativity newsletter:

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“We extend beyond our limits, not by revving our brains like a machine or bulking them up like a muscle—but by strewing our world with rich materials, and by weaving them into our thoughts.” Annie Murphy Paul in The Extended Mind Annie Murphy Paul

'The meaning of a word or sentence is intimately related to the human body: people’s abilities to act, to perceive and to have emotions.'

Two cognitive scientists explain why ChatGPT doesn't have human-like intelligence:

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Artist Franz Kline painted so prolifically that he used the pages of telephone books as his canvases—and he could go through a whole telephone book in a single night.

He was deeply exploring a restricted idea space—an important path to creativity:

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We're all familiar with the insight model of creativity. An idea comes to us, apparently effortlessly, often while we’re not even working—we might be taking a shower or going for a walk.

But there's another path to creativity—one involving persistence.

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Mind Extending Principles (from 'The Extended Mind' by Annie Murphy Paul):