03-07-2015, 02:48 PM
As a whole it is a pretty bad article about what looks like a pretty un-empirical study.
They tested an unknown number of people for the ability to focus. Of those, "many" who couldn't focus also claimed to be more successful at creative pursuits on a questionnaire. The assumption is that many of those that could focus also claimed that but it isn't mentioned.
No "creative geniuses" were reported to have been tested. Three people who the author considers creative geniuses mentioned publicly that they don't like to be bothered while creating. All of the other thousands upon thousands of creative geniuses abstained from answering or else their answers were excluded from this article, we cannot tell which.
There is no distinction made between the reasons for this perception of increased success. (Many people who can focus are creative but find more success in the "non-creative" fields of medicine, law, politics, engineering, management, etc.)
They tested an unknown number of people for the ability to focus. Of those, "many" who couldn't focus also claimed to be more successful at creative pursuits on a questionnaire. The assumption is that many of those that could focus also claimed that but it isn't mentioned.
No "creative geniuses" were reported to have been tested. Three people who the author considers creative geniuses mentioned publicly that they don't like to be bothered while creating. All of the other thousands upon thousands of creative geniuses abstained from answering or else their answers were excluded from this article, we cannot tell which.
There is no distinction made between the reasons for this perception of increased success. (Many people who can focus are creative but find more success in the "non-creative" fields of medicine, law, politics, engineering, management, etc.)