Creativity and Introspection

Some companies will confine their creative efforts to one team and their analytic efforts to another. For years there was the popular right brain, left brain paradigm that seems to help us relegate different traits and tendencies to the appropriate department whether logical or creative. Then there was the body-mind paradigm. As time went on, we realized that these seemingly separate things were really working in tandem all the time. Of course, some of us focus our attention on developing one aspect of ourselves more than another, and we grow into believing that we are either one way or the other when in truth we are predominately one over the other, but not exclusively of the other aspect. For instance, the creative artist, may not be a math whiz but must follow a logical sequence of steps in order to achieve the desired result, just as a mathematician who solves abstract problems, may exclaim at the beautiful simplicity of the solutions that eventually reveal themselves. Those faddish dichotomies have lost their allegiance in favor of a more holistic view that acknowledges the participation of all aspects of our being in our daily life endeavors.
On the CBC Ideas Podcast, Similes and Science Part 2 (Encore September 17, 2015), Sonali Mohapatra talks about her varied life as a physicist, poet, singer and author.