Does weed really boost your creativity?
This topic has popped up recently in another IH discussion, but what do you think? Does smoking up and then working on your startup have any benefits for you or it's all placebo?
I'm personally rather skeptical about large scale effects, but I find it easier to focus on something routine or to come up with a little bit less generic ideas. From the recent experience, I spent an evening working on a pitch-deck when high, and it's by far the best looking pitch-deck I've ever produced. Not sure though if it's because of the weed or because we just have more experience and clearer message.
It maybe useful for a brain storming session, however, for focus and productivity, weed is terrible. Anyone who is productive after consuming weed can be 10x more productive when sober.
It's a big NO, NO - for most people at least!
Let me share my personal experience with you. I had invested in a startup 6 years ago whose CTO used to smoke up all the time before coding. They ended up taking a lot of time to build a shitty product and eventually failed.
While smoking up once in a while might help you come up with creative solutions, smoking up regularly makes most lazy, slow and procrastinate.
After all, why would one take the pain of problem-solving when high when one could just munch on Doritos, listen to Floyd and chill!
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Weed definitely boosts your creativity. Especially sativa strains like hawaiian punch, where you can buy at https://www.topshelfbc.com/product/hawaiian-punch-aaa/ .Full 100% sativa strains are known to enhance focus, creativity and productivity. Sativa doesn't make you tired unlike their indica counterpart. There are MANY benefits to cannabis so I suggest you do research. It has been heavily decriminalized in the last decade and legal in many parts of the world. Research after research is coming out with a lot of benefits to smoking cannabis.
I think it highly depends upon the individual person. It affects everyone differently.
It just puts me to sleep, which doesn't exactly help creativity or productivity.
The reaction to drugs is highly subjective. There is a lot of scientific evidence that suggest that weed in the right dosage can help creativity. This is even more true with psychedelics and again the scientific evidence is overwhelming. I don't the answer that preceded mine, it is obvious that a drug addiction is bad both short and long term just like every kind of addiction.
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Open? I don't think so. You quoted a part of my first comment that was referring to psychedelics.
Then you quoted a study without mentioning the fact that was on regular cannabis users. It's obvious that the effects are dose-dependent and that abitually consuming a drug is never a good idea.
The second study that you quoted says that cannabis enhances creativity of people low in creativity, which contradicts your first affirmation ("this is a myth").
You forgot to mention the fact that the scientific community can't find a unanimous definition of creativity. It is the fourth thing in your post that makes me doubtful about your opennes.
I am sure that you are practical enough of the internet to find on google articles that show a correlation between creativity and moderate usage of weed.
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You are right when you say that studies about psychedelics are still inconclusive. I read endorsements by authoritative figures and I wrongly concluded that their benefits for creativity where actually proven.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00213-018-5049-7
You are wrong when you say that my opinion is proven to be false by science. The research that you quoted and the article I linked say otherwise.
Right now, we can say that there is nothing but anecdotal evidence about psychedelics. This doesn't prove that I am wrong. About 20 years ago, brain plasticity wasn't proven, right now it is. So yes, I need to reframe my position. There is strong anecdotal evidence about the benefits of psychedelics on creativity. However, the science is not conclusive about it.
You proved me that you are not open. In fact, there is no "strong scientific evidence against my opinion" so right there is no "myth". If in the future science will prove me wrong, I will have no problem admitting it.
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I recommend looking for a CT scan of the brain of an addict after several years of use.
"Addict" is the key word here. Find me an addiction that is positive in the long run. They don't exist. And I smoke weed like three times in my life, so I've no business defending it.
Where can I find one?
http://www.encognitive.com/files/images/marijuana-weed-addict-addiction-user-brain-scan.jpeg
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