Quantity yields quality in creativity: brain and behavioral test equal-odds rule

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One question I have often wondered about is: does creativity "transfer" between analytical and artistic fields? For e.g., suppose you indulge in writing poetry, and also are mathematically trained. If you exhibit a high degree of poetic creativity, does it necessarily mean that you are also a highly creative mathematical thinker? Or are these two mostly orthogonal aspects?

That's a good question. My job is in web development where some analytical creativity is needed. I also like to draw and paint in my free time. Both activities feel similar in that I can get into that "flow" state in each one, but I don't know how much of the sources of creativity is common to both.

My feeling is that creativity is about exploring the problem and solution space so without detailed knowledge of those applying any creativity is impossible.

To be concrete art creativity might transfer a bit to UI/UX, but mostly you’d get nothing.

There might be aspects of how to conduct that search that could transfer, but it would be limited.

On the flip side I’m sure they would inspire each other for things that are t transferable.

In my experience, high creativity is just going down as many (mental) paths as possible, as quickly as possible.

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