I’ve spent a number of time finding out the hyperlink between hyperlink between a excessive IQ and creativity.
It appears that evidently there’s motive why so many artists have a mean IQ (or measured intelligence degree] and why some folks with extraordinarily excessive IQ’s wrestle to be artistic.
Getzels & Jackson: Excessive IQ and creativity
For example, a really well-known 1962 research by Getzels and Jackson, examined highschool college students for IQ and artistic considering. The conclusion was attention-grabbing. It confirmed that top IQ and excessive ranges of creativity, tended to be mutually unique.
Nearly all of the best scoring college students have been both extremely artistic folks or they have been very smart, however not each.
Dr. Donald MacKinnon: Artistic considering is a ability that may be discovered
The late artistic considering knowledgeable, Psychology Professor Dr. Donald MacKinnon, studied creativity for many years. He noticed scientists, writers, engineers and medical doctors, who have been thought to be extremely artistic by their colleagues and located they have been no extra clever, than their much less artistic counterparts. He got here to the conclusion that as long as an individual had a primary, minimal degree of intelligence, they may very well be (not less than) as artistic as somebody with a better IQ. He noticed no hyperlink between excessive IQ and creativity / artistic means.
Dr. MacKinnon believed that creativity was merely a method of working along with your thoughts, which may very well be discovered and improved. He referred to artistic thinkers as individuals who merely discovered easy methods to play with their thoughts, in a method that allowed them to develop creatively. In truth, he stated that probably the most artistic folks, have been those that have been childlike of their playful method to creativity.
I can report that Dr. MacKinnon’s work is in full stability with my very own expertise. I used to be thought to be of very low creativity all through my first 25 years. Nonetheless, I’ve been in a position to massively improve my creativity by studying easy methods to use my thoughts extra creatively and by studying to belief my creativity.
Sure, you’re artistic!
After over 30 years finding out artistic considering, it’s my absolute perception that anybody can discover ways to change into extraordinarily artistic, as long as they’re they usually research creativity. In truth, that was the primary causes I created this web site; to assist as many individuals as I can, be as artistic as they’ll.
