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Maria Popova for Creative Mornings

CreativeMornings is a monthly breakfast lecture series for creative types. They take place all over the world, from New York to Stockholm, from Toronto to our wonderful London. Each event is free of charge, and it includes a short talk

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Maria Popova for Creative Mornings

CreativeMornings is a monthly breakfast lecture series for creative types. They take place all over the world, from New York to Stockholm, from Toronto to our wonderful London. Each event is free of charge, and it includes a short talk

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Magic Hours: Essays on Creators and Creation

”To create anything — whether a short story or a magazine profile or a film or a sitcom — is to believe, if only momentarily, you are capable of magic. These essays are about that magic — which is sometimes

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Magic Hours: Essays on Creators and Creation

”To create anything — whether a short story or a magazine profile or a film or a sitcom — is to believe, if only momentarily, you are capable of magic. These essays are about that magic — which is sometimes

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Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

”How we perceive the world and how we act in it are products of how and what we remember…No lasting joke, invention, insight, or work of art was ever produced by an external memory…Our ability to find humor in the

Joshua Foer

Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

”How we perceive the world and how we act in it are products of how and what we remember…No lasting joke, invention, insight, or work of art was ever produced by an external memory…Our ability to find humor in the

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Imagine: How Creativity Works

”The sheer secrecy of creativity — the difficulty in understanding how it happens, even when it happens to us — means that we often associate breakthroughs with an external force. In fact, until the Enlightenment, the imagination was entirely synonymous

brainpicki_3753113_4626630

Imagine: How Creativity Works

”The sheer secrecy of creativity — the difficulty in understanding how it happens, even when it happens to us — means that we often associate breakthroughs with an external force. In fact, until the Enlightenment, the imagination was entirely synonymous