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Why Daydreamers Are More Creative

We don't have to promote either working memory skills or imagination and daydreaming. We can promote both. And in so doing, we are promoting true creativity -- creativity that is both novel and useful. Read More

Really?

Here's my comment. I was super excited to read this article until it became virtually impossible to read. As a creative thinker who finds solace in her regular day dreams (yes, they are a part of my life) I could barely get through this. Please re-write this so it is legible to people who are not super math-minded, so that we can comment on it and say "hey thanks for representing us." But as it is, it's written for people who program computers or something.

Broken Link

I also found that those with a reduced latent inhibition have more confidence in their intuitions. This is probably because those with a reduced latent inhibition actually have more accurate intuitions!

Is it possible if you could provide a new link to your article with the research? I think Apple discontinued web quite a while ago.

Many Thanks

Link updated!

Thanks!

You are on the track

I have to say that I find some very useful information in this article. I'm addicted to daydreaming and I often have lucid dreams, but what strike me the most is inability to rule out some factors when I'm solving any kind of problem. Only when I discuss with my brain all possibilities of such event I draw a conclusion, even if I know the answer in advance. Every time I go trough same cycle again and again. So I must conclude there's a very little damn between my working memory and long term memory, because quite often there is an overflow.

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Scott Barry Kaufman, Ph.D. is a cognitive psychologist at NYU interested in intelligence and creativity development. He is the author of forthcoming Ungifted: Intelligence Redefined.

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