Zoe Jackson’s Reviews > My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind > Status Update

'Dean Simonton, a psychologist at the University of California ... surmises that the same cognitive or neurobiological mechanisms that predispose certain people to developing anxiety disorders also enhance the sort of creative thinking that produces conceptual breakthroughs in science.' Yep, pretty happy with cherry-picking that quote.