Creativity comes from stress?

Hypothesis: as workload increases, creativity increases.

Every time when I have so much work to do, different kinds of interesting ideas that can be used as writing materials pop up in my head.

It supposes to be a good thing, but I hate it. Like right now. I have a research paper assignment on hand, yet I don’t feel like writing it because I am thinking of something else. No matter how much I try to force myself to deal with my assignment, it seems that I am not able to fully engage into it. In fact, I should be doing my homework for Chemistry or studying for the exam next week at this moment, but instead I am writing this little piece of messy, but fun, story.

I have the urge to write but just not for my work. God bless my homework, exam, paper, and GPA.

How would this happen? Is it because I am so stressful right now, so ideas just generate themselves like a side effect? Or is it because my mind just doesn't want to cope with my heavy workload, therefore it creates irrelevant stuff in order to fill my head with them, as a way to escape?

What a hard question.

Of course I don’t know the answer. However, what I usually do is to write down these ideas on my notebook, and tell myself that I will use them when I am free. I do this to comfort myself, so that I can pay my attention back to my work.

Hope it will work this time. Now go back and work on your assignment!