<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Interesting. For me it's the reverse. Manic = creative overdrive! Depressed = cry in my bed, watch bad tv and overeat. </div><div><br></div><br><div><div>On Oct 29, 2013, at 6:58 PM, spike <<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net">spike66@att.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; ">There is no question for me: sadness is definitely correlated with creative thinking. When I am happy, I don’t think, I just have fun. It isn’t clear if sadness actually causes creativity, or if creativity somehow causes sadness, but if the latter it seems like it should be the other way around. Discovering something certainly causes satisfaction, and discovery usually requires creativity.</span></blockquote></div><br></body></html>