Cities Force Us To Interact

The Imagination Is Unleashed By Constraints. You Break Out Of The Box By Stepping Into Shackles.

How Do We Regulate Our Emotions? The Answer Is Surprisingly Simple: By Thinking About Them. The Prefrontal Cortex Allows Each Of Us To Contemplate His Or Her Own Mind, A Talent Psychologists Call Metacognition. We Know When We Are Angry; Every Emotional State Comes With Self-awareness Attached, So That An Individual Can Try To Figure Out Why He's Feeling What He's Feeling. If The Particular Feeling Makes No Sense—if The Amygdala Is Simply Responding To A Loss Frame, For Example—then It Can Be Discounted. The Prefrontal Cortex Can Deliberately Choose To Ignore The Emotional Brain.

A Lie Told Well Is Just As Good As The Truth.

It's A Hard Thing To Describe. It's Just This Sense That You Got Something To Say.

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.