The problem is that we're often led to believe that we need to think outside the box, but actually the most creative solutions often come from people who have gone so deep into a box that they understand the nuances and the constraints so well that they can find new pathways within it that others couldn't see.

David Epstein — EconTalk

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Will Durant spent his whole life worrying that he was a failure. He wrote 13 volumes of The Story of Civilization over 50 years, a project so vast it seems almost incomprehensible. And he was worried he was a failure.

Hidden Brain

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When Junger nearly died from a ruptured artery, he experienced something unexpected: he saw his dead father, and felt completely calm and unafraid. The experience didn't make him religious, but it made him think that the human brain may have evolved to make death easier — that the terror of dying may be much less than the terror of anticipating it.

EconTalk

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