Jonah LehrerThinkers

The Anthropologist phase is a phase in creative endeavors in which one simply observes, and does so in order to clear the mind of old ideas.

The Decline effect is the phenomenon whereby an initial demonstration of something in science tends to be weakened or even altogether disappeared when later workers try to replicate it.

The Forth culture is the cross-pollination of disciplines that allows us to 'freely transplant knowledge between the sciences and the humanities, and focus on connecting the reductionist fact to our actual experience.'.

Losing is valuable — when the mind is denied the sting of losing, it never figures out how to win.

A Problem swap is the technique of removing creative blockages in projects by bringing in new sets of eyes.

Rationality is not a scientist, it's a lawyer.