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We're building more affordable homes faster, because a more affordable Canada is a stronger Canada. Learn more at Canada.ca slash building homes. A message from the government of Canada. Today we're going to be talking about research that says light on highly creative people.
What do you have in here? Peace family is 19 keys. Welcome to the brief. Now this was a study that has been done that shares light on neurologically establishment between highly creative individuals from their peers.
Cognitive neuroscientists, Evangelia, Chris Seacle, and colleagues have identified key differences in brain connectivity that fuel creative thinking. By comparing imminent creators with a control group, they discovered that brains of highly creative people exhibit greater communication between critical networks, even in resting states. These findings provide valuable insights for enhancing creativity in educational and professional settings. Five of the key findings that they found out in this particular study enhanced brain connectivity, resting state insights, efficiency and creative tasks, role in memory and goals, and implications for creative enhancement.
So let's first go with key finding number one, enhanced brain connectivity. Highly creative individuals show higher connectivity within and across brain hemispheres, particularly between a default mode network and the executive control network. So we have our default mode is basically how we're operating when we're not thinking, right? And then our executive control network is when we are thinking, when we're actually focused on being in control of ourselves.
Most people are not functioning, what I believe, at executive level, right? Executive thinkers are different. These are deliverive thinkers that put energy into the task that they do. Most people are just by habit, right?
And by default, because we are creatures of routine. So highly creative individuals show higher connectivity across both brain hemispheres. That's the default network and the executive, right? It kind of reminds me of flow because flow for me is when skills meets challenge, but you also have to be in a calm state, right?
So you got to imagine you're by the do one of the most daunting tasks of your life. You have this confidence, right? But you know that there's this challenge, but at the same time you're relaxing. You have a very calm mind because you're allowing what you already know to take over, but you also are focused on your executive mind control.
At least that's the way that I like to think about it. Then you have resting state insights which are the differences in brain connectivity are apparent even when the brain is at rest, indicating intrinsic neurological variations. So that means that your creative brain can be seen even when you're sleeping, right, even it's not doing too much. The way that you rest and the way that you do things is always going to be different.
Your resting state insights as a differences in brain connectivity are apparent when the brain is at rest indicating intrinsic neurological variations. So there's something that is intrinsic that is different about creative, highly creative people, right? Even when the brain is at rest, the connections are different. efficiency and creative tasks during creative tasks.
The brain of imminent creators activate more specific and focus regions compared to less creative people More specific so it's not just pulling from a broad area It's going to more specific areas of the brain when we think in creative and I say we because I'm part of them people that is a very creative Role of memory involves creative thinking evolves the retrieval and organization of memories to achieve specific goals facilitated by interplay between brain networks The retrieval and recognition of memories to achieve specific goals, right facilitated by the interplay between brain networks I'm thinking about what that brings me to because I know Always think about past positive proof I think about something in the past that gives me a positive proof that I can do something in the present or in the future But also, you know memories that may not have a direct correlational connection to the task that we're doing But we're utilizing that specifically in this task Which means that you're going to be most likely pulling from a different source than the average person going from specific memories, right? To then create a different variation of task output Number four role of memory and goals creative thinking evolves the retrieval and record and reorganization of memories to achieve specific goals facilitated by the interplay between brain networks, oh wait a minute I just did number five was implication for creativity enhancement understanding these brain mechanisms can help develop methods to foster creativity in various Fields so for me always say creativity is a muscle, right? It's something that you do and it's something the more you work on the stronger that it gets these Particular functions in your brain how they draw from memory experiences how they pull from specific areas in your brain You have a innate creative process and there are some people that most likely are more innate creative when we're younger We have a greater creative capacity, right? But as we get older we clip a lot of that because we're taught to think realistic and follow rules and following rules and structure a lot of times To make us less creative because we relied on that rather than depending on the way our brain operates and works to make connections for our task output Creativity is a cornerstone of human evolution enabling us to imagine possibilities and turn them into reality Evangilio Chris sequels research at director University delves into the brain role in the process using fMRI machines and transcranial electrical stimulation Chris equals team explore how different parts of the brain communicate doing creative thinking and a study involving 20 highly creative individuals or imminent creators and a match control group researchers found significant differences in brain connectivity the creative group exhibited more robust connections between the default network associated with memory and imagination and the executive control network involved in planning and going Directed task these networks typically function Intagnetistically antagonistically but in creative individuals they collaborate more effectively, right?
When participants engaged in a traditional creative task generating alternative uses for common objects the difference is became even clearer The imminent creators brain display more focus and efficient activation of relevant regions compared to the widespread less organized activation scene and control group This efficiency suggests that highly creative individuals can better harness their brain resource resources for innovative thinking Chris equals findings highlight the importance of memory and creative processes the ability to retrieve and reinterpret memory based on different goals allow for creative and novel solutions While further research is needed to pinpoint specific memory processes involve these initial resorts underscore the intricate relationship between memory and creativity The conclusion of these findings is harnessing harnessing creativity for innovation Chris equals research reveals that neurological basis for creativity lies and enhance connectivity and efficiency of brain networks These insights offer practical implication for farston creativity Educational and professional environments can benefit from strategies that enhance brain connectivity and memory utilization potentially lead to greater innovation and problem solving capabilities Future policy should focus on creating conditions that nurture these neurological traits. Therefore maximizing creative potential across various This brief is based on the study conducted by eventually a critical and colleague so far the details contact Dr Eventually, Chris equal at Drexel University These were done. There are three different studies that are cited that you can go check out and that's critical at the brain connectivity and creating thinking and creative thinking There's coffee man the neuroscience of creativity. There's new bark the resting state functional connectivity and creativity So that gives me thinking my own creative process My credit process is usually different than most people of course.
That's a big credit is I'm an imminent credit Um, I noticed the difference between what most people engage with things and the way I engage with things most people engage from a broad Retrieval of information and data as far as how they look at things Which is how the normal person looks at this you go through the same set of asking the same questions And you're going from very broad references about how to look at things when my brain goes to very specific points of saying this is like that And therefore this should do this and this should do that right? It's going to be a very specific harnessing of energy when it comes to creative and mental output. So let's say this a IP Well, my brain was thinking about the utility of this the first thing that it went to I thought about this research paper that I read about how You know constant dead scrolling affects the brain And then I thought about Mark Zuckerberg's particular hearing on how he had to basically give a confession Right about the issues that is has when it comes to children and social media and hacking their brains And then I thought about my own experience bringing it back to me about how I scroll too much sometimes on the phone So automatic I thought about a use case in a point of a way to talk about it, right? So my brain went and found three different specific memories to pull from and reference now my brain automatically thinks like this So that's my default mode but my executive mode as it's going for that My brain is searching active for these particular memories But where my brain going search is going specific to those ones that most likely are of best use because this is how my brain automatically operates Right.
This is how my neurological circuitry is automatically connected. So then when I'm making a video, right? There's different ways I could think about it. I could think about okay, who has made video similar to this, right?
And then if I am a person that is not creative what I'm going to do is I'm going to make a video like everybody else Say what it is say what my experience watch a creator blah blah blah right? That's the process technical thinking somebody show me how to technically do something I'm going to follow that technique creative thinking is finding your own abstract process to originate it based on you and who you are Know what you would go about it. So instead I wanted to think about what is the best way for me to speak about this product, right? In a matter that no everybody else isn't speaking on it Which is not about how good or bad it is but what problems it solve and how could it actually be better, right?
And then I think about okay What is the potential use case of it to where I can get the most value out of it, right? And my brain goes in that direction probably about with anything, right? When I think about doing high-level conversations the first thought was I don't want to create a podcast then I start thinking about okay Specific memories. Let me think about like what are the best documentaries that I watch educational programs that I like I'm thinking about the history channel thinking about discovery channel thinking about hidden colors, right?
I'm thinking about all these very specific memories. I'm thinking about Dateline and 60 minutes and things of that nature, right? Then I go to very specific memories of me in the car with my family having deep conversations thinking man I wish this was recorded for the world to see and this is before any of us had any platform because I would always think that We think differently therefore it will be a value because this is something rare and things that are of rarity This is my thesis things and of course not just my thesis, but this is when market works things that are rare are more valued So it's okay to be different than everybody else because there's a market for that because it's valuable. It's a rarity So I remember thinking about the car thinking about a house conversation thinking about the conversation that people in public at the shop, right and Automatically knew that there would be a value then I think about where is the missing value that I can add there people who have Conversations on these particular subjects, but their production quality is not high So I say okay, how about we match the high level production quality with a high level conversation, right?
So therefore people can receive this conversation in a way that they're supposed to so this is how my brain forms connections Right your brain should always be forming some sort of connection And then she'll be going to specific memories in specific places so that your brain is collaborating to come up with a conclusion I want to be the best way to do things for me Wanted to easy as exercises to do to constantly enhance your creative thinking is thinking about design Every time you open a door think about how that door could have been designed different right how it could have been a door that you pull It could have been a door that you turn left could have been a door that has a handle that is thumbprint plus you have to Singing it whatever it may be the more you think about it what you're doing is you're redesigning and you're strengthening that neural connection That you're having your brain to think differently about the world right that has always been mine and that's basically a process of how questions work Right is the inquisitive nature how can things be done differently or seeing things as is and saying Accessing the question why a lot because a child asked the question why a lot and why it's not particularly using a specific circuitry of the brain to operate from right? You're allowing yourself to go into joining when you ask why right you're allowing yourself to take insights and those insights then become actions right Somebody say hey show up at 222 22 on the dot. You'll say well Why do we have to do that right that inquisitive nature keeps your mind fresh The colors in the room even that of course is going to constantly be a curiosity water colors like this Maybe there's a reason maybe there's not but it also keeps you learning right somebody can say well We have the colors in the room orange and we have been white right one brings about joy and happiness and other one is a neutral color of cleanliness And you can say okay Why is that you gonna keep asking why isn't and eventually you're gonna get to your why actual answer to it and that brain keeps it fresh Because then that has to then that becomes a process in which you go about doing things right why we do this why can't it be that So you're giving yourself options if I'm making a podcast why should I make a podcast like everybody else? Why can't I make it like that?
So now you're breaking the rules and now you're creating your own rules So for me being the most easiest process to be creative is just to act why why why why right it keeps you growing it keeps you learning It keeps you curious it keeps you experimenting and doing things different. So if you want to be more creative that is my My answer to you first is to ask yourself. Why do you want to be creative? Why?
Right when you look at somebody else proud of a process. Why does it work that way? Scientists get to deriving at answers and conclusions because they ask the question why a lot right? You have a control group why is there a control group right?
So they can be a repeatable experience exercise why you go get eminent creators because they have proven experience right as to be creative As far as the baseline of what people think is creative And then you can now relate that to yourself whether you are the base group or whether you are an imminent crater If you're an imminent crater you can understand why you are creative and perhaps you can see yourself in these findings Right, but in life the creative thinker is the one who's on a win right now in school They're making everybody technical thinkers I wrote about this in my book because being a technical thinker allows you to paint and understand that there's no box The box is what trips people up in the first place because it puts you in a two question quandary right to where you're saying that either I'm in a box or outside the box. That's not creative out of the box. I think it is not creative There's a third option. There's no box right or maybe it's not a box at all.
Maybe it's a triangle you went Maybe it's a circle you see what I'm doing there I first started off with why is it a box in the first place then when I do that I give myself options man I go to options. I say wait a minute. These are two binary options right in the box out Then I get myself a third right there is no box Which really opens up a million possibilities now I can still operate from this framework to where maybe there's a circle Maybe there's a triangle. Maybe there's a text of he dry right there's a whole all these sort of different geometrical shapes Maybe there's a hexagon and then how does that change?
So now you're giving yourself all these different variations of possibilities to where you know You're gonna do things differently than the average person who only has that binary thinking of I'm gonna do things in the box I'm gonna do things outside the box So that is my brief on creative thinking and there are ways to enhance your creativity and my protocol first is asking your question Why? You're gonna jump into crown society. You're saying that my represent power represent knowledge of self step in an An amateur step in an amateur Where the crowns are just symbolized like I know who I am. I know why I'm here.
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