The Benefits of Restlessness and Jagged Edges
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Kay Redfield Jamison
Kay Redfield Jamison is a professor of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Her books include "An Unquiet Mind" and "Exuberance: The Passion for Life." She was honored with a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship in 2001.
By Kay Redfield Jamison
Published on 11/13/2007
I
believe that curiosity, wonder and passion are defining qualities of
imaginative minds and great teachers; that restlessness and discontent
are vital things; and that intense experience and suffering instruct us
in ways that less intense emotions can never do.