Harlow would later write, "If monkeys have taught us anything, it's that you've got to learn how to love before you learn how to live.

We need to be willing to risk embarrassment, ask silly questions, surround ourselves with people who don't know what we're talking about. We need to leave behind the safety of our expertise.

Children can't help but create: they need to put their mind on the page, they want to paint, to sculpt, to write short stories.

To have a style is to be stuck.

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

The only way to maximize group creativity—to make the whole more than the sum of its parts—is to encourage a candid discussion of mistakes. In part, this is because the acceptance of error reduces cost. When you believe your flaws will be quickly corrected by the group, you're less worried about perfecting your contribution, which leads to a more candid conversation. We can only get it right when we talk about what we got wrong.

People assume that they perceive reality as it is, that our senses accurately record the outside world. Yet the science suggests that, in important ways, people experience reality not as it is, but as they expect it to be.