"I'll risk stepping into the political sphere to discuss a provocative finding: In any country, immigrants are statistically more likely to generate exceptionally creative works. There's a long list of immigrant geniuses: W. H. Auden, Vladimir Nabokov, Nikola Tesla, Marie Curie, Sigmund Freud, and Albert Einstein. But single cases don't make a scientific argument. Do we have any statistical data on this?"
"In 2016, Eric Weiner published some numbers in The Wall Street Journal: An awful lot of brilliant minds blossomed in alien soil. That is especially true of the U.S., where foreign-born residents account for only 13% of the population but hold nearly a third of all patents and a quarter of all Nobel Prizes awarded to Americans.* Those are some pretty convincing numbers, a somewhere between 12 and 20 percent increase in creativity among immigrants."
Cross-cultural exchange and immigration correlate with increased creativity and entrepreneurial success. Romantic relationships across cultures also boost creativity. J-1 visa participants return to their home countries more entrepreneurial than peers who did not travel. Foreign-born residents demonstrate disproportionate creative output: 13% of the U.S. population holds nearly one-third of patents and a quarter of Nobel Prizes awarded to Americans. Psychologists link larger creative insights to distant associations formed by diverse knowledge and experiences. Schema violations increase cognitive flexibility, which in turn enhances creativity. Marginality and exposure to different cultural frameworks facilitate radical, breakthrough innovation rather than only incremental ideas.
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