Three Visionary Scientists Who Embraced Limitations to Have Creative Outbursts

Many procrastinators have claimed that ever-closer deadlines help them focus [image error]and enforce creativity. There may be something to that. Not quite the procrastination, but the forced wall of immovability restricting them that gets gears going. For proof, get your hands on a copy of The Five Obstructions, a documentary where experimental Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier inflicts five restrictions on his filmmaking mentor and friend Jørgen Leth, pushing him to make the same short film five times in...