Alice Flaherty on creativity and danger
Neurologist Alice Flaherty, author of the book Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Disease, has an interesting TEDx talk on creativity and danger:
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Skip to contentNeurologist Alice Flaherty, author of the book Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Disease, has an interesting TEDx talk on creativity and danger:
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