-Searching the Brain for the Roots of Fear

by Joseph Ledoux for the New York Times

nprfreshair:

British comedian Steve Coogan on today’s Fresh Air: “Being creative means, some of the things that bother you stop bothering you because you exploit them creatively. So it’s a kind of a strange process but you need to have hang-ups and neuroses to be creative. If you’re just in a state of nirvana, you’re not going to be very interesting or funny.”