The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery

by Sarah Lewis

Dunning–Kruger effect—the greater our proficiency, the more clearly we recognize the possibilities of our limitations.

Zeigarnik Effect, the experience of replaying notes in an attempt to try to piece together an entire melody.

“In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty,” Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote.60

Nietzsche’s idea of amor fati, to love your fate. “The demon that you can swallow gives you its power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply.”27

Follow someone else’s route too often and soon you lose the ability to map out your own.

Elizabeth Murray knew, that “to be right doesn’t mean that everyone else has to be wrong.”