The strong waves of ideas have been flooding my mind. But, as I write this, they have just vanished. I stared at the screen. My head drooped. I have been waiting for this moment all day. A moment when ...

Nearly everyone has struggled with writer’s block and procrastination at some point. I’ve been studying the phenomenon formally and informally for many years. In the early 1990s, I conducted a survey ...

In 1920, a sixteen-year-old Graham Greene decided that, after “104 weeks of monotony, humiliation, and mental pain,” he could no longer remain at Berkhamsted, the prep school where he was enrolled. He ...