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The Perils of Plans: Why Creativity Requires Leaping into the Unknown

The Perils of Plans: Why Creativity Requires Leaping into the Unknown

“The job—as well as the plight, and the unexpected joy—of the artist is to embrace uncertainty, to be sharpened and honed by it.”

Self-Portrait as Your Traitor: A 21st-Century Illuminated Manuscript

Self-Portrait as Your Traitor: A 21st-Century Illuminated Manuscript

“One must have a reason for reflection — an eye to admire variations.”

Great Writers Reflect on the Divide Between Private Person and Public Persona in Hand-Drawn Self-Portraits

Great Writers Reflect on the Divide Between Private Person and Public Persona in Hand-Drawn Self-Portraits

“Only the crazed and the privileged permit themselves the luxury of disintegration into more than one self.”

The Science of Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect

The Science of Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect

“The self is more of a superhighway for social influence than it is the impenetrable private fortress we believe it to be.”

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