Do creative people have more bad ideas than average?

Creative ideas are not unique to geniuses. As you say, most creative ideas don’t come from people that are commonly considered geniuses. But that’s a result of the manpower advantage that non-geniuses have. The average genius (for lack of a better term), is considerably more creative than even above average people. That’s what makes them a genius. read more

By using much more of her brain to achieve her goal, the highly creative person, in effect, provides herself with more raw material from which to construct ideas than the average person. The average person thinks only about drawings of cats and the basic characteristics of cats. read more