Required Slate Read: „We Say We Like Creativity, but We Really Don’t“

Screenshot of the Slate page „People don’t actually like creativity.“ (Illustration by Rob Donnelly)

Slate author Jessia Olien: „People don’t actually like creativity. Teachers and bosses don’t value out-of-the-box thinking.“

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It’s all a lie. This is the thing about creativity that is rarely acknowledged: Most people don’t actually like it. Studies confirm what many creative people have suspected all along: People are biased against creative thinking, despite all of their insistence otherwise.