India, Feb. 9 -- Anxiety opens up a barrage of 'what ifs,' flooding with innumerable possibilities for scenarios. Basically, a lot of overthinking goes into it, visualising how it could a situation would play out- maybe the presentation or solo trip for the first time. So with so many thoughts, is an anxious person also creative? A study published in The Journal of Creative Behavior revealed anxiety's relation with creativity. Creativity is essentially an original, innovative idea and an anxious person thinks a lot, producing a lot of ideas. But the study revealed an interesting trade-off when it comes to anxiety and creativity.

The study experimented on 647 participants to understand how anxiety influences creativity. They were asked to...