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barrystaes on Jan 20, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: To Be More Creative, Cheer Up

In other news: (same HN page)

Feeling Sad Makes Us More Creative (wired.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8915681

dspillett on Jan 20, 2015 [–]

Also, being bored makes us more creative: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8915371

From those results we could make one of three conclusions:

* Any sufficiently strong emotional response inspires creativity

* Different people respond to different emotional queues and the studies had samples of people biased in different directions

* It is all a load of bunkum.

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