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“The greatest killer of creativity is interruption. It pulls your mind away from what you want to be thinking about. Research has shown that, after an interruption, it can take eight minutes for you to return to your previous state of consciousness, and up to twenty minutes to get back into a state of deep focus.”
― Creativity: A Short and Cheerful Guide
― Creativity: A Short and Cheerful Guide
“When it comes to meditation, though, the goal and the journey are the same thing.”
― Get Some Headspace: How Mindfulness Can Change Your Life in Ten Minutes a Day
― Get Some Headspace: How Mindfulness Can Change Your Life in Ten Minutes a Day
“Most adults, by contrast, find it hard to be playful — no doubt because they have to take care of all the responsibilities that come with an adult’s life. Creative adults, however, have not forgotten how to play.”
― Creativity: A Short and Cheerful Guide
― Creativity: A Short and Cheerful Guide
“When we do not put our primary emotional energy into solving our own problems, we take on other people’s problems as our own.”
― The Dance of Anger: A Woman's Guide to Changing the Patterns of Intimate Relationships
― The Dance of Anger: A Woman's Guide to Changing the Patterns of Intimate Relationships
“You yourself are more responsible for how you are accepted than anyone else. Many people worry about what other people will think of them. But few realize that the world forms its opinion of us, largely from the opinion we have of ourselves.”
― How to Have Confidence and Power in Dealing With People
― How to Have Confidence and Power in Dealing With People
Berk’s 2024 Year in Books
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