Intelligence, Creativity, and a Touch of Madness

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That one's world is 'infected' with subjective reality does not also mean that one is incapable of simultaneous interaction with the intersubjective reality of their peers.

But what I was thinking is that when your mind is wandering/reflecting (i.e. "looking inwards"), don't you feel that your external attention becomes a little more subdued for a moment? Not completely but to a certain extent?

Perhaps to the application of blunted of flat affectation upon my external emotions... but in most circumstances: not much.

That you have to watch something to your left and to your right at the same time does not mean that you cannot passably do so with minimal delay though give you whiplash it may.

For example, if someone gave you a math problem to solve and you started working on it, then naturally it would somewhat interfere with your concentration on the task if you started to daydream or think about some other stuff at the same time. Can you really do both at the same time? Well okay, maybe you can, but for most people I think this would be a little difficult. So there seems to be a trade-off relationship between peoples' internal attention and their external attention. As one of them goes up, the other one goes down.

The problem is only incurred if the external information influence is not in any way related to internal thought. It's not a question of up and down... it's a question of connectivity. When I am playing a video game with headphones in: the world outside of that immersion may as well not exist, being spoken to, even with sound muted, comes quiet from thousands of miles away.

Same thing applies to internal/external: focus too hard on the external, and you may lose focus on internal... focus too hard on internal, and you may literally lose vision of the external.

Maybe what the psychologists discovered is that creative people are able to maintain a greater amount of activity in terms of both internal and external attention, i.e. they can engage in both of them simultaneously with a greater intensity. I think this is still pretty controversial, but that's my understanding so far after having watched the video (the one that I posted in the OP). But I could be wrong.

More so than balance: maintaining a particularly vivid spiral is very... tiring. Though, perhaps that's due to the content to a greater degree than it is to the ability. I find a balanced position to be almost effortless... sapping energy only when considering reality.

The quiet, when it happens, is... odd. Somehow... it's too peaceful. Plenty of energy to burn, no viable alternate outlet.

Do you generally not like poetry much ... or is it just his poems that you find awful?

The latter, as I do not believe it constitutes poetry. I can certainly enjoy listening to them read aloud.