Seeing oneself from the outside

How Thinking About Others Improves Our Creativity | Psychology Today



More advantages in seeing oneself from the outside:

This isn’t just the creative power of altruism. The results strengthen an the theory that when we think of the situations we are in, we tend to think more concretely and can struggle to generate new ideas, whereas when we think about the situations others are in, especially situations distant from our own reality, we tend to widen our perspective and generate ideas that are a little more abstract—more like the creative ideas we might need.