The jazz musician is a creative artist, the classical musician is a re-creative artist. - David Epstein

The precise person you are now is fleeting, just like all the other people you’ve been.

Ed Catmull requires directors to pitch three ideas, not one.

One idea creates attachment. Three create perspective.

With multiple options, people compare instead of defend.

That is what leads to better decisions.

It is stupid to claim that birds are better than frogs because they see farther, or that frogs are better than birds because they see deeper.” The world, he wrote, is both broad and deep. “We need birds and frogs working together to explore it.