Are Biopolar & Mania Related to Creativity? #shorts
00:00:00.000 | "Certain individuals of certain occupations
00:00:02.620 | "tend to be more creative
00:00:04.360 | "and that creativity is associated with,"
00:00:06.560 | again, associated, this isn't causal,
00:00:08.640 | it's associated or correlated with,
00:00:10.120 | "higher levels or incidents of bipolar, depression,
00:00:13.400 | "and maybe even other forms of depression."
00:00:15.120 | These are people that are not just good at what they do,
00:00:18.080 | but are exceptional at what they do.
00:00:19.800 | "Among the professions they looked at in this study,"
00:00:22.440 | 'cause they didn't look at all professions,
00:00:23.800 | "those in the military
00:00:25.300 | "and those who are professional athletes
00:00:27.380 | "or had jobs in the social or natural sciences,
00:00:30.640 | "there was a lower percentage of those
00:00:32.560 | "that had depression or mania.
00:00:34.720 | "In some cases, like those who are professional athletes,
00:00:36.660 | "there was no incidents of mania."
00:00:38.480 | It is really striking to see how the creative occupations,
00:00:41.800 | poetry, fiction, art, nonfiction writing,
00:00:44.880 | music composition, theater, much higher incidents.
00:00:48.120 | We'd be wrong to say that certain aspects
00:00:50.520 | of manic episodes don't lend themselves well to creativity.
00:00:53.120 | In no way, shape, or form do I believe
00:00:55.780 | that being depressed is a good thing
00:00:58.300 | or that being manic is a good thing.