The least likely professionals to exhibit psychopathic characteristics? Care workers, nurses, therapists, artists and teachers.
Though these leaders cause misery and mayhem, “those who can curb their tendencies to ignore society’s rules are at a great advantage,” said James. “If you take away the concern with other people that figures in most people’s calculations, you are more free and can think outside the box.”
Processing fluency
Other studies have shown that when presenting people with a factual statement, manipulations that make the statement easier to mentally process—even totally nonsubstantive changes like writing it in a cleaner font or making it rhyme or simply repeating it—can alter judgment of the truth of the statement, along with evaluation of the intelligence of the statement’s author.
Ted Nelson: Can’t do Arithmetic
Nelson said. “I still can’t add up a checkbook: I can add a column of figures five times, get four different answers, and none of them will be right.
.. Dyslexia, ADD, dyslexia, bi-polar, etc. came the replies. I have concluded that most visionaries in the learning field have Jimmy Swaggart syndrome brought on by trying to solve the world’s learning disorders.
How sleep makes your mind more creative
It is 6.06am and I’m typing this in my pyjamas. I awoke at 6.04am, walked from the bedroom to the study, switched on my computer and got to work immediately. This is unusual behaviour for me. However, it’s a tried and tested technique for enhancing creativity, long used by writers, poets and others, including the inventor Benjamin Franklin. And psychology research appears to back this up, providing an explanation for why we might be at our most creative when our minds are still emerging from the realm of sleep.
.. No wonder some people value the immediate, post-sleep, dreamlike mental state – known as sleep inertia or the hypnopompic state – so highly. It allows them to infuse their waking, directed thoughts with a dusting of dreamworld magic.