1: It was 1968, and the executives at NASA had a problem.   

“The space agency had a lot of smart people on staff, but smart and creative were different things,” Steven Kotler writes in his brilliant book The Art of Impossible.

“NASA’s lifeblood was innovation.    They desperately needed their most creative engineers working their most difficult challenges,” Steven notes.    ”  Yet telling the Picassos from the … continue reading