Preface for Instructors Orienting On Habits of Mind: A Letter to Students and Other Readers On the Origins of Habits of the Creative Mind : A Letter to Teachers Beginning On Unlearning On Confronting the Unknown On Joining the Conversation Curiosity at Work: Rebecca Skloot''s Extra-Credit Assignment Paying Attention On Learning to See On Looking and Looking Again On Encountering Difficulty Curiosity at Work: David Simon Pays Attention to the Disenfranchised Asking Questions On Asking Questions On Writing to a Question On Interviewing Curiosity at Work: Michael Pollan Contemplates the Ethics of Eating Meat Exploring On Going Down the Rabbit Hole On Creative Reading On Imagining Others On Motivation Curiosity at Work: Donovan Hohn Follows the Toys Connecting On the Three Most Important Words in the English Language On Writing by Formula On Working with the Words of Others Argument at Work: Michelle Alexander and the Power of Analogy Reflecting On the Miracle of Language On Making Thought Visible On Thinking Unthinkable Thoughts Reflection at Work: Harriet McBryde Johnson and the "Undeniable Reality of Disabled Lives Well Lived" Making Space and Time On Creative Places On a Screen of One''s Own On Solitude Curiosity at Work: Alan Lightman and the Mind-Bending Multiverse Practicing On Seeing as a Writer On Reading as a Writer On Self-Curation Creativity at Work: Twyla Tharp and the Paradox of Habitual Creativity Planning and Replanning On Structure On Revising On Learning from Failure Curiosity at Work: Alison Bechdel and the Layered Complexity of the Graphic Narrative Arguing On Argument as Journey On the Theater of the Mind On Curiosity at Work in the Academy Argument at Work: Sonia Sotomayor and Principled Openness Diverging On Writing''s Magical Powers On Laughter On Playing with Conventions Creativity at Work: James McBride''s Serious Humor Readings Ta-Nehisi Coates, Fear of a Black President Jill Lepore, The Last Amazon: Wonder Woman Returns Susan Sontag, Looking at War Index.