Testosterone and Creativity?

[jiu jitsu]

Just wondering what your thoughts are regarding the relationship between testosterone and creativity. there are some studies that suggest that high testosterone blunts empathy, enhances spatial reasoning, and possibly hinders creativity. I was wondering if any of you have had issues with this since being on TRT. I am a UX/UI Designer (web and app design) and I need a fair amount of creativity for my field of work This is scaring me off of TRT.

Theoretically, I could see how testosterone improving mood might make it harder for someone to empathize, since empathy is really just an adoption of someone else's negative emotional experience. Creativity, specifically artistic ability, tends to be an emotionally-emphasized practice.
anyways, Tl;dr= Have you had a hard time being more creative since getting on TRT?

 

[muscleupcrohn]

I'd hardly think that using TRT to normalize low-testosterone would hinder your emotional wellbeing or creativity. People with clinically low-T tend to feel/perform sub-optimally, so I'd argue that if anything, normalizing it would be a good thing.

 

[Old Witch]

Superhuman testosterone levels can turn you into a meathead. Deca and Tren are linked to dementia... What was the question?

 

[Alchemist11]

No wonder why I feel more crude and a bit primitive on cycle...

 

[Old Witch]

No wonder why I feel more crude and a bit primitive on cycle...

Ut like lift heavy weight. Ut like make sex with many female. Ut like fight other Ut. Ut feel superior.

 

[swimfan65]

Superhuman testosterone levels can turn you into a meathead. Deca and Tren are linked to dementia... What was the question?

Hahaha...wait what are we talking about. Yeah high test levels makes me less emotional

 

[Renew1]

Just wondering what your thoughts are regarding the relationship between testosterone and creativity. there are some studies that suggest that high testosterone blunts empathy, enhances spatial reasoning, and possibly hinders creativity. I was wondering if any of you have had issues with this since being on TRT. I am a UX/UI Designer (web and app design) and I need a fair amount of creativity for my field of work This is scaring me off of TRT.

Theoretically, I could see how testosterone improving mood might make it harder for someone to empathize, since empathy is really just an adoption of someone else's negative emotional experience. Creativity, specifically artistic ability, tends to be an emotionally-emphasized practice.
anyways, Tl;dr= Have you had a hard time being more creative since getting on TRT?

I pick stuff up.
I put stuff down.
That answer question?

 

[Renew1]

Maybe this is off topic - but i have read that there is a correlation between dopamine and Test ... and that one affects the other. And it can be applied to mood / ability to focus / and such isses as depression or anxiety.

Also - when i have been on a PH or SARm i have notced i sleep much much deeper. I wish I could sleep like this all the time honestly as I never sleep like that on a normal noncycle night

If anyone has any info or links to studies on this - either creativity or sleep - I would like to read more

Here's what I found in my own personal study with sleep...
In general, my sleep sucks when I'm on steroids (especially orals).

 

[Renew1]

that seems counterintuitive, no?

I would think that since you are lifting heavier, pushing yourself, eating a lot, and attempting to get good sleep by ensuring quality recovery ... that you would just kind of sucumb to rest when its avaialble. What are your thoughts on why you dont sleep well?

LOL.
It's probably the stuff that I'm putting into my body that isn't normally in there.
The things that people theorize aren't always how things are in reality.
Not by a long shot.

 

[suavmcgauv]

I do not want to optimize my testosterone levels because I may lose a slight creative edge in my technical field. Would you lop your testicles off so that you could maintain a higher singing voice?

 

[jiu jitsu]

I do not want to optimize my testosterone levels because I may lose a slight creative edge in my technical field. Would you lop your testicles off so that you could maintain a higher singing voice?

depends on how much money Im getting from it

 

[muscleupcrohn]

depends on how much money Im getting from it

If you are purely using TRT to NORMALIZE low levels I would not worry about it. Low-T is associated with all manner of issues with optimal performance and wellbeing that would be more of a hindrance to your professional career than this hypothetical effect we are discussing. Also, men are intended to have a certain T-level; getting to that healthy normal level isn’t a negative thing at all.

 

[suavmcgauv]

depends on how much money Im getting from it

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Right? That is funny and too true. I just had to push your line of thinking to the extreme.

I just doubt that HRT levels of test will have any affect on creativity at all. More likely it will affect concentration and sex drive, and you may be tempted to spend more time masturbating and or chasing women, which would not be good for work.

Creativity is a funny one. I would think that it stems more from openness to varied experiences and trying new things, and less from rigid thinking and resisting changes that could really improve things.

 

[muscleupcrohn]

I mean, are you saying that men can’t be as creative as women because they have higher T-levels?

I am confident that it isn’t quite so cut and dry as increasing T reduces creativity.

Perhaps there is a CORRELATION, but that can also involve a plethora of other factors, from how they were raised, to how it effected their career choice, etc.

 

[jiu jitsu]

I mean, are you saying that men can’t be as creative as women because they have higher T-levels?

I am confident that it isn’t quite so cut and dry as increasing T reduces creativity.

Perhaps there is a CORRELATION, but that can also involve a plethora of other factors, from how they were raised, to how it effected their career choice, etc.

good point. an idea would be, women are more inclined to be creative because it requires less energy and comes in relaxed flows of daydreaming, and can be done from a sedentary lifestyle. where as men are more interested in analytical work that requires boundary pushing because testosterone gives them that drive and energy.

daydreaming(creativity) can be done from a relaxed state
cognition requires work

 

[muscleupcrohn]

good point. an idea would be, women are more inclined to be creative because it requires less energy and comes in relaxed flows of daydreaming, and can be done from a sedentary lifestyle. where as men are more interested in analytical work that requires boundary pushing because testosterone gives them that drive and energy.

daydreaming(creativity) can be done from a relaxed state
cognition requires work

Yeah. It may not be so much that people with higher testosterone have less creative potential, only that they are more drawn to activities that may not require as much, and may not develop it as much, so they end up not being as creative. Like if someone with higher T is more likely to play football in school and major in engineering, while someone with lower-T may write for the school paper instead and major in literature. Nature vs nurture of sorts, and people with higher-T May gravitate to more analytical activities that don’t foster and develop creativity as well.