TL;DR: It's not the specific emotion that matters (indeed, there's evidence that having mixed emotions, where you can synthesize aspects of them, is crucial to creativity), it's the motivational intensity behind it.
Re:Google cancels TGIF weekly all-hands meetings
by rudedogg on Saturday November 16, 2019 @12:25AM
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This seems like a pretty big stretch. The realization that mixed emotions (as in happy/angry) being useful for creative thought somehow can be applied here?
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/creativity-the-art-a...
https://hbr.org/2015/08/the-emotions-that-make-us-more-creat...
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.0266...
TL;DR: It's not the specific emotion that matters (indeed, there's evidence that having mixed emotions, where you can synthesize aspects of them, is crucial to creativity), it's the motivational intensity behind it.