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  1. Mar 2025
    1. 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.

      ??

    2. 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.

      this sounds horrible

    1. 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.

      like? confused?

    2. 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.

      makes it seem like something you cold train yourself to do