"The act of feeling frustrated is an essential part of the creative process," says Jonah Lehrer in the trailer for his new book Imagine: How Creativity Works (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). "We need to have wrestled with the problem and lost. Because it's only after we stop searching that the answer might arrive."
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