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This may be too sensitive a topic for Martin to accept so feel free to use your scissors, Martin
Article in todays paper.Re Men's Creativity Research.
Edited version.
Health Warning To Men-Marriage may damage your creativity.Dr Kanazawa-psychologist at Canterbury University maintains research shows this is true.He studied 280 famous scientists and found that they tended to decline in creativity once married and with children.He also studied musicians painters and authors and found the same pattern.
He also found that criminals appeared to cease re-offending once married.Less creative crimes!
Dr Kanazawa was asked if he was proof of his own theory-aged 40 and married- he hoped he still had not done his best work.He did however do this research before his marriage.
This chap is now heading for a lectureship at the London School of Economics.Probably earns a hefty salary.
No longer NZ's problem.A poll indicates that NZedders do not agree with this theory.What do you think!
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Oops! Lady G. Thin ice time, as Martin has lost his scissors, I`ll say this, Got married, Created three kids, have nine grandchildren, two great grand children, and I hope the potential is still there. Don`t think my creativity has waned. Q.E.D. from over the Pennines, Bill.
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ohhh this might worry martin!
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Oops! Lady G. Thin ice time, as Martin has lost his scissors, I`ll say this, Got married, Created three kids, have nine grandchildren, two great grand children, and I hope the potential is still there. Don`t think my creativity has waned.
Sounds very creative to me Bill.
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Maybe creativity just declines with age.... and of course, one is more likely to be married with children the older one gets. I think most of us probably have our most original ideas when we're younger. Did the survey see if scientists who remained unmarried showed declining creativity with the passage of time?
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Good point Linda, I was thinking along the same lines earlier. I always take these surveys with a pinch of virtual salt. Everybody is different and will live their lives in their own unique way... That's my excuse anyway.
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This may be too sensitive a topic for Martin to accept so feel free to use your scissors, Martin
Actually, I've just noticed that you put this topic in "Forum News" So I am going to activate my scissors and selotape in order to put it in a more suitable category.
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A large percentage of successful artists are male- I put this down to the fact that they have wives to look after childcare, housework etc, and can get on with what they want to do . So being wed can help sometimes .
Otherwise, loneliness and angst, whatever, makes one turn to creativity, contentment less so .
I think we're discouraged on the whole, from our school years on, from having original ideas, and from self-expression . We use the right side of our brain for this, and it falls into disuse. Following a course in art, for example, can stimulate it, which has effects on not only our artistic abilities, but our ways of thinking.
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Hmmmmmm - creativity declines with age, eh?
Or is it just that we are wise enough to realise that what we created was probably created by some other equally creative young person before we got creative and got old?
Darn, did I really say that - sorrry, I agree. My creativity has certainly gone. Not as young as I used to be.
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