Some individuals are highly anxious and worry more than the others. It may be annoying at times as it would take them forever to figuring things out, but recent studies revealed that worrying can be linked to highly creative geniuses. New York City Today then stated that neurotics may be worriers, but they are also highly creative at the same time. A recent study was focused on setting the connection between anxiously worrying and creativity.
As per Higher Perspective, Dr Adam Perkins, who is an expert in Neurobiology of Personality made a statement in regards to the study.
"It occurred to me that if you happen to have a preponderance of negatively hued self-generated thoughts, due to high levels of spontaneous activity in the parts of the medial prefrontal cortex that govern conscious perception of threat and you also have a tendency to switch to panic sooner than average people, due to possessing especially high reactivity in the basolateral nuclei of the amygdale, then that means you can experience intense negative emotions even when there's no threat present. This could mean that for specific neural reasons, high scorers on neuroticism have a highly active imagination, which acts as a built-in threat generator."
He then added:
"Cheerful, happy-go-lucky people by definition do not brood about problems and so must be at a disadvantage when problem-solving compared to a more neurotic person. We have a useful sanity check for our theory because it is easy to observe that many geniuses seem to have a brooding, unhappy tendency that hints they are fairly high on the neuroticism spectrum. For example, think of the life stories of Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Vincent Van Gogh, Kurt Cobain, etc. Perhaps the link between creativity and neuroticism was summed up most succinctly of all by John Lennon when he said: 'Genius is pain.'"
