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I believes many of these claims will be debunked as the 'The Human Connectome Project' and 'The Human Brain Project' nears completion. But I think many things like creativity will always remain subjective.
Might I add yet another bit of input on how to be creative? John Cleese had a few words to say about being creative a while ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMpdPrm6Ul4
I've observed that many hacker types flinch from the megahertz, ironically enough, as a way to keep up with the speed of the systems they've built.
Killing creativity is the least of it. Many snap judgments rot the brain.
What's it with creativity today ? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8916115
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Actually I used to work as a rafting guide. Didn't earn a lot of money, but I had a lot of free time (in nature), and met a lot of people. I notice that I had way more ideas then than I do now that I have settled into a 9-6 lifestyle. Sometimes that creativity starts coming back when I am on holiday for a while. I think a "normal" office job / lifestyle is very stifling to creativity.
Might be true, but it's easy to misjudge this: in your 9-6 you have lots of time to process any interesting ideas that come your way and then move on to the next thing, whereas while you were a rafting guide you probably chewed on the same ideas for longer and at odd times, making them appear more salient and profound.
All these studies suffer from inadequate efforts to properly operationalize the concept of "creativity". On the bright side, I believe that information sciences and statistics can shed a great deal more light on this particular problem in the near future.
See also: http://kill-or-cure.herokuapp.com/
"being southern causes cancer"
"being black causes cancer"
"being male causes cancer"
"fatherhood causes cancer" / "childlessness cause cancer"
"work causes cancer"/"working causes cancer"
"bras cause cancer"
"bacon causes cancer"
"burgers cause cancer"
I feel sorry for deodorant-wearing, southern, black, working fathers (or not) that cross-dress and enjoy bacon-burgers - they clearly don't stand a chance against cancer! Who knew?
@JonnieCache - Thanks for sharing! Kill or cure does a great job highlighting how research can be contradictory, as well as how research headlines are often made sensationalist.
Moods correlate with states of focus and attention, and hence some states of mind are more useful in particular phases of the creative process.
I think it makes sense to some extent, as a happy person has no needs and can let their mind float aimlessly while an unhappy person wants to strive, focus and achieve to change his/her condition or to at least forget about the state of mind he/she is in.
