I miss having bad ideas

There’s a wealth of academic research on ‘creativity constraints,’ or limits designed to encourage innovation. Anne Laure Sellier, an associate professor of marketing at HEC Paris who has researched the effects of restricted choice and time on creativity, notes, however, that there are good constraints (like setting timers for oneself), and there are bad ones. Stress — like the kind you might feel amidst, say, a pandemic, mass employment and a crumbling economy — is a bad constraint, writes The Cut.