David Dobbs: Risk becomes possibility; vulnerability becomes plasticity and responsiveness. It's one of those simple ideas with big, spreading implications. Together, the steady dandelions and the mercurial orchids offer an adaptive flexibility that neither can provide alone. Together, they open a path to otherwise unreachable individual and collective achievements.
Jay Belsky: They don't see the upside, because they don't look for it.
Roger Dobson: All too often, creativity goes hand in hand with mental illness. Now we're starting to understand why.
Malcolm Gladwell: The Cezannes of the world bloom late not as a result of some defect in character, or distraction, or lack of ambition, but because the kind of creativity that proceeds through trial and error necessarily takes a long time to come to fruition.
Seth Stevenson: Fascinating anecdotes can, just by themselves, make you feel like you've really learned something.
Ker Than: History suggests that the line between creativity and madness is a fine one, but a small group of people known as schizotypes are able to walk it with few problems and even benefit from it.
Bradley Folley: Creativity at its base is associative. It's taking things that you might see and pass by every day and using them in a novel way to solve a new problem.
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