marriage vs creativity
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- lifeinsodium
"A study of 280 successful scientists found that their creativity tended to diminish once they got married. This also held true for musicians, painters and authors. "
http://msn.careerbuilder.com/Cus…any of you married folk having problems being creative?
- jevad0
musically...yes
- k0na_an0k0
2 words. yoko ono.
i agree.
- bomy_dick0
marriage is evil
unless u marry a czech beauty ;)
- ximeraLabs0
what about marriages where the husband/wife form a professional team?
- Donvitoviti0
you die... like sonny and cher
- Bluejam0
A bad workman always blames his wife.™
- zombiewoof0
After 7 years, the creativity is still there...
but time and money, they are are all gone.
- blaw0
i had trouble writing lyrics for a while. mostly because i was always in such a great mood and the bands i'm in don't exactly play happy music.
after changing my approach it worked out and the stuff i write now is much better than the old stuff.
- gabriel20
I would guess that it's actually the amount of time spent being creative that diminishes, not the creativity. You tend to spend less time doing work when you have more important things in your life...
- Mimio0
Lou Reed released Blue Mask the same year he got married and it totally saved his career.
- bomy_dick0
i think if both work in a creative environment it could be worse..
i love to have my gf being a manual worker stuffing chickens fat the factory down the road..
it makes me feel so creative.. u know
- lifeinsodium0
just being in a relationship kills my creativity. i am guessing that after marriage i'd have to become a professor.
- mr_snuggles0
Well by nature marriage forces you to use creativity in many shapes and forms on an everday basis to keep things fresh.
I think work/design-wise I haven't suffered at all, plus my wife is also a designer so I definitely get inspired by her and sincerely hope we can work together more in the near future.
- Neuarmy0
it depends on how supportive your spouse is. my wifey is behind me all the way, so she understands when i spend a lot of time on the computer when i get off work..
shit, she's the inspiration for a lot of my work anyway. so, for me, marriage hasn't fucked with my creativety, it helps sometimes.i would imagine that kids will royally fuck things up tho...lol
- dippy0
lots of things change when you get married (speaking from personal experience). as long as you are able to adapt to the change, there's no reason why you can't be as creative as you were.
i'm interested to know how many married *women* there are on NT.
- mogwai0
I have only be married two years, and am still dealing with this dilemma. My CG work is fine, if not better (career oriented). In my painting and expressive work, i cant draw on the old loneliness/isolation/sadness that i used to, so i am trying to reinvent my source of inspiration. This has been really fun and interesting, and i think is actually maturing my work in a good way.
What is most difficult in my opinion, is just having someone there to peek on my progress, which is a private thing to me. its a mindfuck knowing that she'll want to see the progress of the new painting. (must not work to impress, ever)
- Spix0
i just did not have time working on my own stuff outside work once I got married...but it seems like I will have alot more time soon.
- -sputnik-0
i'll be married this saturday, but we've been together and very close for 3 years.
my creativity has NOT decreased whatsoever. he is interested in what i do and it inspires me...adding inspiration to all the other stuff that gets me going.
- blaw0
that sucks, spix.
- gruntt0
married since june. creativity loss = 0
congrats (again) sputnik
sorry spix