06/08/2017

Creative People Literally See the World Differently

What research has uncovered about creative personalities is mind-blowing

Creative people aren't just different because of the surprising and valuable work they produce. Nor is exceptional creativity all a matter of personality. The differences between the creatively gifted and the rest of us apparently go even deeper, according to mind-blowing recent research. In fact, creative people actually see the world differently, according to a fascinating recent post on The Conversation by two Australian psychologists.

The world looks different if you're highly creative.
What exactly do I mean by see the world differently? In one intriguing study explained by authors Luke Smillie and Anna Antinori, researchers presented each eye of a volunteer with a different image. The right eye might see a red patch, for instance, and the left a green one. How did participants' brains handle this contradictory visual information? The answer depended on the subject's level of creativity.

The brains of the averagely gifted alternated between the two images, sometimes deciding that the world must be red and other times that it must be green. "For the observer, the images seem to flip intermittently from one to the other," explain the psychologists.

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