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Bust your worries to boost your creativity

An illustration of a stressed out woman. Fears can prevent people from coming up with creative solutions to problems.

'I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened," noted the American writer Mark Twain. What worries are on your mind right now? These days, many people worry about many things, which is unsurprising given that we're living in a fragile world that, in the aftermath of a global pandemic, has been battered by other external shocks.

Sadly, a troubled mind full of worries, anxieties and fears is too distressed to engage in more advanced creative thinking that might be helpful to overcome some of these very same concerns.

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