A new study demonstrates that thinking about love--but not about sex--causes us to think more "globally," making it easier to come up with new ideas

Why does love make us think more globally? The researchers suggest that romantic love induces a long-term perspective, whereas sexual desire induces a short-term perspective. This is because love typically entails wishes and goals of prolonged attachment with a person, whereas sexual desire is typically focused on engaging in sexual activities in the "here and now". Consistent with this idea, when the researchers asked people to imagine a romantic date or a casual sex encounter, they found that those who imagined dates imagined them as occurring farther into the future than those who imagined casual sex.

hmm, that's interesting.

It is something i have looked into and it is indeed true, the reason, considered by many, is that love, like hate, fear, joy anger, empathy, etc, the stronger emotions always have the most energy connected with them.

The more creative of us are better able to channel this energy, and those powerful emotions can even bring out talents we did not know we had, for example someone who has recently fallen in love might feel the urge to write, as might the same person after a break up, anger can sometimes bring about the most scathing attacks or perhaps ingenious revenge.

When you are feeling those urges it is best to go with them, well perhaps focusing on the creative rather than the destructive but you know what I mean.

oh really......might have the desire to write?
huh.

yeah, you know like poetry, love songs, etc, or on the flipside just look at Alanis Morrisette's greatest hits