Worriers and Overthinkers Are Creative Geniuses, Recent Study Says

A worrier or an overthinker can be a creative genius, according to a study conducted by the King's College in London. This kind of thinker seems to figure out things for a long time in deep thinking. This way, creative thoughts are being dug down.

Adam Perkins and the team said according to the recent study, worries or overthinkers usually frustrate people, but they should not be underrated as such traits often resemble creative thoughts. "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 unusually high reactivity in the basolateral nuclei of the amygdala, then that means you can experience intense negative emotions even when there's no threat present." Perkins, an expert in Neurobiology of Personality, said.

The study suggested that for specific neural reasons, high scorers on neuroticism tend to have a super active imagination that becomes a built-in threat generator. Worry becomes a positive aspect in thinking, being now called the "mother of invention." No wonder, Albert Einstein worried about many things too much, which has lead to many inventions and discoveries.

Among the greatest breakthroughs over the years were results of excessive problems such as the design of Nuclear power, Advanced Weapons, Medical advances and so forth. These and more were yielded to because of the problems before their urgent necessities.

LiveScience featured creative minds like Steve Jobs, Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, and Stephen Hawking and pointed that these geniuses yielded to their several breakthroughs because they were worriers and overthinkers. These titanic thinkers have changed the world in many ways.

Alexander Graham Bell, who worried about his deaf mother, has led to the invention of the telephone. Isaac Newton concerned about why everything that is thrown up goes back down, leading him to theorize about "gravity." Thomas Edison worried about the dark nights and the constant use of fire to light up evenings that's why he was led to discover about light bulbs.

The list goes on. Geniuses in the world over the years are considered worriers and overthinkers before their discoveries. However, it is not always healthy to overthink as everything that is taken too much does no good to oneself.