Creativity and Flow

Perfectionism is a refusal to let yourself move ahead. It is a loop — an obsessive, debilitating closed system.

In his bestselling book, “Strong at the Broken Places,” Richard Cohen profiles, among five persons living with chronic illness, mental health advocate Larry Fricks.

PBS released a documentary called “This Emotional Life” and I saw it and went to pieces.

Samuel Johnson wrote, “It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery, and as much happiness as possible,” and I’m often struck by how much happiness I get from small, seemingly trivial aspects of my life.

The Leonardo da Vinci exhibit at the Museum of Science in Boston was full of intriguing items, from a blue metal sculpture symbolizing bird flight to the bridge build with no nails to images of Leonardo’s many journals.

So you know you’re pretty good at something, but you want to get better.