Moreover, just like cognitive disinhibition, schizotypy is correlated with creativity, verbal and visual, with one caveat: Desiring isolation, being introvertive, lacking a capacity for pleasure—these do not predict creativity. They don’t make you more creative, according to the studies.

hey made themselves schizotypal

that he purposefully overrode,

with no regard for the truth of the assertion. To others and to himself, he willfully defied reality. He’d reverse himself, too. If particular lines of argument failed to persuade, he’d advocate others. He’d throw people off by adopting their position as his own. He’d say an idea was crazy, then a week later call it great.

And since you can’t connect what never gets in, art is enhanced potential for connectivity.

Noticing more widens the field of perception.

forming unexpected linkages.

The artist confronts chaos. The whole thing of art is, ‘How do you organize chaos?’ ”

At root, the scale is about problems with adaptation centering on “how well an individual can balance external pressures with internal emotional drives.” In other words, the degree to which one accepts reality.

Chance got her going. But skill, planning, and imagination helped her make the most of it.

There wasn’t anything accidental about it, either.

death of consciousness.

It was almost like he was on some kind of mission. He was only really concerned about playing his music and growing as a musician.

unexotic hard work

It comes down to a frame of mind. Noticing more. Paying attention. Not cutting off feeling. Repressing as little as you can. Freeing the mind to wander and drift in what seem, at first, to be pointless or odd directions. Staring down fear. Eschewing easy answers, cliché, simplifications.

If this sounds messy and torturous, it is.

Any form or style you’ve mastered gets old quickly, begins to feel stale. This basic boredom provokes a readiness for change.

Depth of consciousness

Need to know

hemes for her.

He wasn’t content with his first solution, the representational,

You get absorb

You’re not stiff or timid or uptight

It’s not that she was crazy. It’s that she was open

Psychiatric jargon. Signs and symptoms.