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.

Design is the conscious imposition of meaningful order.

The imagination is unleashed by constraints. You break out of the box by stepping into shackles.

The best way to solve a problem? Try explaining it to somebody outside your field.

Rejection process is not fun. It's the red pen on the page, the discarded sketch, sometimes is the only way forward.

When we venture beyond the edge of our knowledge, all we have is art.