creative thought

It’s one of the details that speaks to a time when “people put a lot of creative thought and energy into smoking,” he said.

“And that’s why all the ashtrays I was buying were Midcentury Modern — because they’re from a time when people put a lot more creative thought and energy into smoking, because smoking cigarettes used to be much more in fashion and people didn’t know it was bad for you.”

In a recent study, 151 human participants were pitted against ChatGPT-4 in three tests designed to measure divergent thinking, which is considered to be an indicator of creative thought.

“Hatred,” Thurman reminds me, “tends to dry up the springs of creative thought in the life of the hater, so that his resourcefulness becomes completely focused on the negative aspects of his environment.”

But Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Frank Sinatra, Joe Hisaishi and Shigeru Umebayashi — any music that evokes or moves my soul, rather than being light and catchy, can help inspire some creative thought.