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Jonah Lehrer

Jonah Lehrer is a columnist for the Wall Street Journal, a feature writer for The New Yorker, and author of the best-selling books Proust Was a Neuroscientist (2007), How We Decide (2010), and Imagine: How Creativity Works (2012).

By Jonah Lehrer | April 11, 2012

Jonah Lehrer's new book shows that creativity is not a single gift possessed by the lucky few. It’s a variety of distinct thought processes…

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