Wisdom as Moral Compass: Why Creativity Without Wisdom Turns Self-Serving

We celebrate creativity as an unqualified good—a skill to be cultivated in schools, rewarded in workplaces, and admired in culture. But new research from the journal Intelligence reveals a troubling finding: among people low in wisdom, higher creativity actually predicted lower willingness to help others. This episode explores why creativity is 'morally neutral,' how wisdom functions as a regulatory mechanism that channels creative capacity toward social good, and what this means for how we educate, hire, and develop talent. This episode was generated with AI assistance.