Does having a high IQ make you less creative?

The point about intrinsic vs extrinsic is important. I certainly know people who have always been motivated throughout schooling and academia to achieve high test scores.

What you can sometimes observe with these people is that once they get outside of that framework they find motivation difficult.

They will learn quickly if they see the possibility of a high test score , a promotion or a leader board rank of some kind but find it difficult to understand the point of doing something just to see if they can or where the reward for success is uncertain.

Anecdotal evidence: Worst school assignments for me was making stuff up. It felt so stupid my brain actively rejected those. Memorizing - second worst. Understanding, problem solving - pure bliss. Mensa member here.

There's something I keep wondering about whenever I see people draw any conclusions whatsoever from IQ alone: How can it not matter whether a particular score was achieved by being equally good at all tasks or by being very good at some and very bad at other tasks?

I would expect a totally different outcome to many IQ related studies if that were taken into account. Or maybe it is actually taken into account but never reported, I'm not sure.

"Write as many different uses that you can think of for the following objects: a brick... average students had much more diverse answers than students with high I.Q.’s. "

Asking a question like list things you can do with a brick is meaningless, since there's no metric to measure the ideas by. Anyone can list an unlimited number of completely ridiculous (and diverse) ideas if they want to, just many would find that pointless. And ridiculous creativity isn't helpful either, what's needed in life is good ideas.

A more useful test would be to see what useful ideas people could come up with to solve a problem, though that would be harder to measure.

sad nobody understood the point I was making, I shall dumb it down a little.

If a low IQ person saw a rocket and had no idea how it worked then they would deem it magic, aka creative. So with that the more intellegent somebody is on the IQ scale then the more that what would appear creative is to them common logical sence. But thanks for the feedback of silence :p.