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Eric Weiner Biography

Eric Weiner is a popular speaker and author of the New York Times bestseller The Geography of Bliss, Man Seeks God, and the recent The Geography of Genius. Weiner's books have been translated into more than 20 languages.

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It's not what we believe that makes us happy but the act of believing. In anything.

Act, Believe, Believing, Happy

Compromise is a skill, and like all skills it atrophies from lack of use.

Skills, Use, Compromise, Like, Atrophies

The creative act always requires a stepping back. It's called the incubation period. The incubation period - one of the four phases of creativity - is when you're not consciously thinking of a problem, and you're letting it marinate. So this is why you hear time and again, people saying they had that "Eureka" moment in the bath, like Archimedes, or in the shower, or while going for a walk or in a coffeehouse.

Creativity, Thinking, People, Bath, Archimedes, Incubation

You look around the world at geniuses, and they don't appear randomly, they appear in genius clusters. Athens in 50 BC, Florence 1500, Silicon Valley today. This is not a coincidence.

Coincidence, Florence, Genius, Looks, Today, Valleys

We help other people because we can, or because it makes us feel good, not because we're counting on some future payback. There is a word for this; love.

Counting, Feel Good, Future, Good, Helping Others, People

Psychologists call it "defocused attention," where you broaden your horizons, let your mind float and drift a bit. Coffee keeps us sharp and alert. It's great if you're driving at 3 o'clock in the morning. It's not so great if you're trying to come up with the next violin concerto.

Coffee, Float, Horizons, Mind, Morning, Psychologists

When you're stuck on something creatively, you can't solve a problem, you go to a coffee shop.

Coffee, Problem, Shop, Stuck

Our happiness is completely and utterly intertwined with other people: family and friends and neighbors and the woman you hardly notice who cleans your office. Happiness is not a noun or verb. It's a conjunction. Connective tissue.

Conjunction, Connective, Family And Friends, Noun, Office, People

For me, a place unvisited is like an unrequited love. A dull ache that- try as you might to think it away, to convince yourself that she really wasn't the right country for you- just won't leave you in peace.

Country, Like, Place, Thinking, Unrequited Love

a simple question to identify your true home: where do you want to die?

Die, Home, Identify, Question, Simple, Want

I've spent most of my life trying to think my way to happiness, and my failure to achieve that goal only proves, in my mind, that I am not a good enough thinker. It never occurred to me that the source of my unhappiness is not flawed thinking but thinking itself.

Enough, Goal, Mind, Thinking, Way

Perhaps it's true you can't go back in time, but you can return to the scene of a love, of a crime, of happiness, and of a fateful decision; the places are what remain, are what you can possess, are what is immortal.

Back, Decision, Love, Return, Travel

When you drink coffee, you become very focused, and in fact, the key to creative genius is to be defocused.

Coffee, Creative, Fact, Genius, Key, Keys

Haydn, Beethoven, Mozart, none of them were born in Vienna. They all moved there. It became a magnet, but what made it magnetized in the first place? There has to be a seed there. In the case of Vienna of about 1780, it was this deep-seated love of music.

Became, Born, Firsts, Music Love, Seed, Vienna

I'm interested in genius the way a hungry man is interested in Philadelphia cheesesteaks. I want something. I want a piece of it.

Interested, Man, Men, Philadelphia, Want Something, Way

People don't go to Starbucks for the coffee - of that I'm pretty sure - they go for the atmosphere, they go for the 70 decibels, they go for the Starbucks effect.

Atmosphere, Coffee, Decibels, People

Until the eighteenth century, people believed that biblical paradise, the Garden of Eden, was a real place. It appeared on maps--located, ironically, at the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, in what is now modern-day Iraq.

Real, Biblical, Garden, People, Place

Music was literally in the air at the time, the Vienna of 1780. Everybody played music, classical music. There were in fact so many musicians that in apartment buildings people had to come up with a schedule - you practice at 5 p. m. , I'll practice at 6 p. m. That way the music didn't collide with one another.

Air, Buildings, Musicians, People, Practice, Time

Believing in everything looks a lot like believing in nothing.

Believe, Believing, Everything, Like, Looks, Nothing

I think we should have more coffeehouses, more cafes, more "third places. " More places where people can get together that's not work, not home, and where they can interact with people who are different from them.

Home, Interact, Should Have, Thinking, Together, Work

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