choose to worship God... He has to exist to have created what I was privileged to see - Eugene Ceman [26, p.39 ]. "think the minute that I saw the view for the first time was really one of the most memorable moments of my entire life. I just said in Arabic "O God", or something like "God is Great." It's beyond description - Prince Sultan bin Salman al-Saud [26, p. 21]. You can see how diminutive your life and concerns are compared to other things in the universe. Your life and concerns are important to you, of course. But you can see that a lot of the things you worry about don't make much difference in an overall sense. The result is that you enjoy the life that is before you; you don't sweat the next milestone... It allows you to have inner peace.- Ed Gibson [26, P. 43]. Creativity The isolation and confinement literature contains many anecdotes suggesting that intellectual tasks are more difficult than normal, and that inefficiencies and errors creep in. Attempts to verify these performance decrements using standardized tests and careful measurement techniques have not always succeeded [29,41], For example, one study of twelve scientists who spent 71 days in the Antarctic revealed no indications of impaired mental performance, but instead found improvements in digit memory and the resolution of perceptual conflict. Slower reaction times were noted, but the authors suggest this might be a result of the heavy protective gear required outdoors [42]. Isolation and confinement do affect mental processes. Summarizing more than two decades of research in this area, Barabasz noted that isolation increases suggestibility and hypnotizability [43], This has been shown in the laboratory and in Antarctica, and may have occurred in space. Common effects include a growing imperviousness to distracting events and increased immersion in one's own thoughts. Although there is a risk that astronauts will "tune out" important information or fail to complete their assignments on time, there is also the possibility that looking inward and tapping the wellsprings of imagination will increase creativity. Storr has hypothesized a link between^olitude and creativity [44], He notes, for example, that many highly creative writers (including Beatrix Potter, Rudyard Kipling, Anthony Trollope and P. G. Wodehouse) led solitary and even painfully isolated lives, yet later showed great talent and creativity in their writings, and that some writers (including Boethius, John Bunyon, Dostoevski, and Raleigh) have produced highly influential works in prison. According to Storr, solitude and isolation throws people on their own resources. In the course of learning how to make do on their own, people develop imagination, talent, and creativity. For many writers and artists, isolation eliminates distractions and allows time to create. At the same time, unusual conditions provide useful material for incorporation into artistic creations.
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