Quotes by : Jonah Lehrer

How do we regulate our emotions? The answer is surprisingly simple: by thinking about them. The prefrontal....

Just because an idea is true doesn't mean it can be proved. And just because an idea can be proved doesn't....

The great ages did not perhaps produce much more talent than ours,' [T.S.] Eliot wrote. 'But less talent....

A few years ago, Tor Wager, a neuroscientist at Columbia University, wanted to figure out why placebos....

We see them most when we are o nnthe outside looking in

Every creative journey begins with a problem. It starts with a feeling of frustration, the dull ache....

Even when alternative views are clearly wrong, being exposed to them still expands our creative potential.....

Every creative story is different. And every creative story is the same. There was nothing. Now there....

Insights, after all, come from the overlap between seemingly unrelated thoughts. They emerge when concepts....

And so we keep on thinking, because the next thought might be the answer.