Communication can suppress mental capacity
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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Intensive social contacts do not necessarily benefit the mind. According to psychologists, in some people communication can suppress them.
Not too good news for fans of brainstorming and other types of collective creative physical education. According to researchers from Johns Hopkins University (USA), social isolation to creative abilities is only beneficial. True, psychologists make an important clarification: only those people whose self-esteem and the general view of the world do not depend on the opinions of others will benefit.
For such, the rejection of social contacts confirms their internal freedom and independence, and if they are allowed to remain quietly away from the society, they see this as a confirmation of their own right to exist. They can be considered arrogant, but the fact is that the creative abilities of such individuals are indeed improving. And vice versa - those who have self-esteem and ideas about the world depend on the opinions of others, will feel very uncomfortable outside the society: they will lose their foothold, and together with it - their creative abilities.
The results of research psychologists have published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology.
The authors of the work emphasize that their results are not very consistent with the current general social and network attitude toward the "new creative collective" (or "new collective creativity"). If a person shies away from communication, from intensive participation in the life of the community, this does not mean at all that it needs to be corrected, point out the shortcomings and drag it into the society, so that its creativity blossoms. Obviously, we need to recognize that there are people who have talent without your (and your society) direct participation. It would be especially useful to assimilate various managers to distinguish sociable employees from insecure ones in time and not to drag them to corporate parties and collective brainstorming sessions, where they will still be of no use to them.
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