The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World with Iain McGilchrist
The Innovation Show
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The Muse Needs to Be Left in the Muse Zone
I knew nothing about the brain in those days, or very little. But I spent a lot of time studying things that never really issued in papers. If I'd been in the bat and not allowed to range over a vast array of different subjects, I would never have been able to bring together insights from all these areas. And I'm very, very grateful now for the ballet times when I wasn't forced to make myself produce stuff. The emissary is holding you back. It's going, don't write this book. Don't show me up. You don’t show me up."
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