What’s the Big Idea?

What’s the Big Idea? – New York Times: “What’s the Big Idea? ”

I lead a perfectly healthy, satisfactory life without being religious. And I think more people should try it.

Not at all. I do not believe in the inner world. I think that the inner world comes from the exploration of the outer world – reading, traveling, talking. I do not believe that meditation or cogitation leads to wisdom or peace or the truth.

where do you think ideas come from?

I don’t think they come out of daydreaming. Everybody who has had a great idea or made a great realization has been working very hard at it, and they often have failed many times. You don’t go from nothing to a great idea without doing a lot of work