My definition of learning is to remember what you are interested in. If you don't remember something, you haven't learned it, and you are never going to remember something unless you are interested in it. These words dance together. 'Interest' is another holy word and drives 'memory'. Combine them and you have learning.

Information anxiety is the black hole between data and knowledge, and it happens when information doesn't tell us what we want or need to know.

In school, we're rewarded for having the answer, not for asking a good question.

What situations can I create that allow me not to have the disease of familiarity?

People can be motivated to creativity simply with the instruction to "be creative."

People never forget things, they just never remembered it in the first place because it was too boring

My opening line to my students, and a recurring theme in my classes, was that the big design problem isn't designing a house for your parents or yourself, a museum, or a toaster, or a book, or whatever. The big design problem is designing your life. It's by the design of your life that you create the backboard off which you bounce all your thoughts and ideas and creativity. You have to decide what it is that you want to do each day.