Truman Hung

…eat idea explodes into their brains. But, as the science makes clear, this just isn’t how it works. Creativity is like a muscle. If you train right, you can be a creative heavyweight.

What’s more is that you need the ability to keep moving forward when things get hard — because no matter how passionate you are about something, at some point, the road is going to get a little bumpy. “We feel the move of doing something, but when our brain tells us ‘this is hard’ we tend to give up,” says Thakkar. “That’s when we might feel, ‘I was wrong about my passion. This isn’t for me.’” In essence, just because you’re passionate about something, it doesn’t mean that it will come naturally.