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The Myth of the Neurotic Creative

May 17, 2016 in

While neuroticism has been associated with a host of negative outcomes and even some positive outcomes, creative thinking doesn’t appear to be one of its correlates. There’s so much we still don’t know about the creative mind, but what we do know suggests that being highly neurotic is not the magic sauce of creativity.

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