Scott Barry Kaufman

And you find IQ had a zero correlation with artistic creative achievement in life.

One important cognitive process that's associated with arts is what's called a latent inhibition, and it's particularly reduced to latent inhibition.

So usually we tend to see the world and tag things as relevant or irrelevant to a problem we're working on based on our prior expectations.

But people in the arts are really good at constantly seeing things with fresh eyes.

They're constantly good at putting aside their prior preconceptions and trying to find meaning in the here and now.

And we've published papers and there are other papers showing that people who tend to have a reduced lean inhibition, reduced, tend to score higher in the arts creative achievement domain.

Also, it's correlated with openness to experience as well.

The personality trait, openness to experience, openness to aesthetics, openness to beauty.

And also emotions, being able to tap into the rich, rich tapestry of your emotions and not view some of your emotions as off limits, like saying you always have to be happy all the time, but actually saying, you know, I'm actually going to take this depression I'm going through and use that as fodder for creativity.

Well, one specific thing I did study in my dissertation is this idea called implicit learning, which is our ability to learn the probabilistic rule structure of the world automatically and implicitly without our level of awareness.

This is deep implications.

I mean, so you talk about the theme of your show right here.

We're getting to this is very, very congruent.

I mean, think about what is required to develop social intelligence.

Sometimes when people smile, they mean this.

Sometimes they don't.

Sometimes when people's eyes are like this, sometimes they don't.

You know, the world is messy.

And I, from a cognitive scientist lens, I develop tasks to measure people, differences in people's ability to learn about the probabilistic structure of something.

And we have found that's virtually uncorrelated, wholly uncorrelated with IQ.