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When one of the co-founders at Qualtrics, Stuart Orgill, was choosing his major at BYU he selected accounting. I asked him why and he said, “Because I’m not good at it.”  While others selected what they were good at and what they thought was a good fit, he selected an area where he was weakest and dominated it. That’s the way that we feel. See full article here .

Milton Glaser as quoted in "Imagine: How Creativity Works" by Jonah Lehrer I think people need to be reminded that creativity is a verb, a very time-consuming verb. It's about taking an idea in your head, and transforming that idea into something real. And that's always going to be a long and difficult process.  If you're doing it right, it's going to feel like work. (p. 69) The book isn't great, but I like the quote.

On Quora -- a really nice summary of color theory: http://www.quora.com/Design/Is-there-a-science-to-picking-the-colors-that-work-well-together-in-a-design-or-is-it-just-subjective/answer/Colm-Tuite