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Are some people born being creative, or is it a skill that you can develop much like a muscle? In his book "Creativity: The Work and Lives of 91 Eminent People," psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi suggested that, "of all human activities, creativity comes closest to providing the fulfillment we all hope to get in our lives. Incorporating these creative practices into your daily life may help you increase your creative potential. Creative people tend to have a lot of energy, both physical and mental.
They can spend hours working on a single task that holds their attention , yet seem to remain enthusiastic all the while. Having a creative mind doesn't mean always engaging in a focused creative or artistic task.
Creative and artistic people are imaginative, curious, and spend a great deal of time at rest, quietly reflecting on the topics that hold their interest and allowing their minds to wander. Creative people tend to be smart, but research has shown that having a very high IQ is not necessarily correlated with higher levels of creative achievement—personality traits are important, too. In Lewis Terman's longitudinal study of gifted children, children with high IQs were shown to do better in life overall, but those with very high IQ weren't necessarily creative geniuses.
Very few of those involved in the study demonstrated high levels of artistic achievement later in life. Csikszentmihalyi notes that studies suggest that there seems to be a cutoff point at around Having higher-than-average intelligence might contribute to creativity, but having an IQ over does not necessarily lead to greater creativity. Balancing creativity with practical knowledge means knowing which ideas to pursue and which to rework or abandon.
This skill set is an important aspect of being a creative person. Csikszentmihalyi notes that a playful attitude is one of the hallmarks of creativity, but this lightheartedness and excitement is also mirrored by a paradoxical trait: perseverance. When working on a project, creative people tend to exhibit determination and doggedness. They may work for hours on something , often staying up late into the night until they are satisfied with their work.
Consider what you would think if you met an artist. Their life may sound exciting, romantic, and glamorous. However, being a successful artist is also a lot of work, which many people may fail to see. A creative person realizes that true creativity involves combining both fun and hard work. An artistic or creative person may come across as carefree, however they can also be incredibly hardworking and driven when it comes to pursuing their passion. Creative people like to daydream and imagine the possibilities and wonders of the world.
See, after becoming familiar with the music of Jerry Garcia -- and the Grateful Dead, alike -- feelings of anxiety are rarely the ones that come through, at least from a creative standpoint. His music, itself, is very uplifting.
With that said, there may be one group of people who, as a whole, are more likely to deal with matters of anxiety: creatives. This belief comes from the idea that true creativity comes from expression -- and the most gripping, intimate forms of expression usually arise on the heels of hardship.
Think about it: The story of the man who walked through seven hells before arriving at heaven certainly sounds more interesting than the one about the dude working the desk job -- with a nice, cozy, loft apartment. At the end of the day, life is experience, and those who are able to face their experience -- regardless of how crippling it may be -- are the most in tuned with themselves and reality. The easiest way to channel your anxiety into creativity is by expressing yourself -- regardless of how you choose to do it.
Studies show that neurotic people have sensitive amygdalae, the almond-shaped brain structures involved in processing fear and anxiety.
So, neurotic people not only invent problems, but tend to become very stressed by them. But self-generated thoughts are also linked to planning skills and the ability to delay gratification.
Perkins realized that the brain's internal threat generator might have pros as well. Isaac Newton, for example, once wrote that he solved problems by chewing over them incessantly. Thus, the neurotic tendency to dwell on things might be the very root of creativity and problem solving, Perkins said.
According to Perkins and his colleagues' hypothesis, the brains of neurotic people might have a particularly persistent "default mode network," which is the circuit in the brain that becomes activated when people are doing nothing in particular. The medial prefrontal cortex is part of that system. If neurotic people have trouble turning off this thought-generating network, it might make them more prone to overthinking, dwelling and otherwise mulling over problems — real and imagined.
This can be a problem because neurotic people also have oversensitive amygdalae. The tendency to become panicked over imagined problems can make neurotic people quite miserable, Perkins said. On the other hand, neuroticism could have benefits, he said. It's a tantalizing notion, but no one has yet done the experimental work that would prove that the same processes cause neurotic worrying and creative genius.
And finding proof will be difficult, Perkins warned.
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