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"Your invitation," Julian said, placing a heavy hand on Elias’s shoulder. "It wasn’t for your patronage, Elias. It was for your hands. You have the finest grip for a charcoal pencil I’ve ever seen."
Neuroscience backs up what the Greeks mythologized. When we enter a state of "transfixed" creativity, the brain’s Default Mode Network (DMN)—the part responsible for self-criticism and imposter syndrome—quiets down. Simultaneously, the frontoparietal control network engages. muses transfixed exclusive