I was too mortified to experiment with applying pastels and open, innocent expressions to my face, choosing instead to be ironic and good at math.

-Rachel Berger’s 100 days project

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May 17, 2011

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Charles Limb’s findings from his “Your brain on Improv” Ted talk:

“These are not the jazz areas of the brain. They do a whole host of things that have to do with self reflection, introspection, working memory…really consciousness is seated in the frontal lobe. But, we have this combination of an area thought to be involved in self-monitoring turning off and this autobiographical or self-expressive area turning on. … A reasonable hypothesis is that to be creative you have to have this weird dissociation in your frontal lobe. One area turns on, and a big area shuts off so that you’re not inhibited, so that you’re willing to make mistakes, so that you’re not constantly shutting down these new generative impulses.”

The scientific argument behind drinking and designing. Also eloquently stated here.