Falling in Love Makes You More Creative
Among the things I’d call the last girl I fell in love with, I would often refer to her as my Muse. While I was deeply aware that it wasn’t a very common thing to say, I couldn’t help but feel that she was the source of my inspiration. Am I cheesy? Sure. Was I correct? Apparently, yes.
A new study out of the University of Amsterdam has found a strong relationship between being in love and being creative. When in love, we tend to think more long term and thus trigger global processing which is considered central to creative thinking and interfering with analytical thinking. Conversely, when not in love we tend to think more in the immediate which triggers local processing and has the exact opposite effects.
Having sex on the mind, therefore, is apparently extremely limiting to one’s creativity. Go figure. Scientific America does a good job of analyzing the results of the study here.
What are your thoughts?
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1 anon wrote:
What about drugs? How does that factor into the equation of one’s creativity.
Also, I cant imagine many of the famous music artists I know being all that interested in love based on their seual exploits and they seemed to produce some pretty creative stuff.
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2 Mya wrote:
Sure falling inlove can inspire some creativity…like… for example, I seem to recall myself exclaiming to someone I once fell inlove with “oh the possibilities are endless with you!” … but as my mind began to rapidly fill with creative thoughts; processing my desire to do just about anything with that person I so loved, I realized that just by fantasizing won’t exactly help me reach my goals. My creative thought process raced ahead of me and in the end and I never got to do what I wanted because there was no time for absolutely everything especially when love runs its natural course of dissipating…it was actually impossible to say the least, to even imagine that everything can be accomplished within a given time…. so yeah, creativity can only come to life if we stop fantasizing about it, and activley do something about it. Now that’s a major challenge at this day and age!
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