The ability to live in the question long enough for genius toemerge is a touchstone of creative success. In fact, a 2008 studypublished in the Journal of CreativeBehavior revealed tolerance for ambiguity to be“significantly and positively related” to creativity.
|Explaining the results, lead researcher, Franck Zenasni,argued tolerance for ambiguity “enables individuals to not besatisfied by partial or non-optimal solutions to complex problems.People who tolerate ambiguity may be able to work effectively on alarger set of stimuli or situations, including ambiguous ones,whereas intolerant individuals will avoid or quickly stop treatingsuch information.” Problem is, with rare exception, when faced with the need tolive in the question, most people, creators included, experienceanything from unease to abject fear and paralyzing anxiety. Readcomplete The 99% article.
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