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[Clodfobble]

I don't know if news and research are the same in that regard, though. I think the creative mind understands that "news" is temporary--sure, X is President today and law Y was enacted today, but those may change with another election cycle so who really cares, in the end--and it is the ability to see everything as temporary that allows them to envision things that have never been envisioned before.

An instinct for researching, on the other hand, I think is more like a side effect of already not being off-the-charts creative. You could maybe train your brain to be a little more creative by forcing it to come up with every step of the fort-building on its own, but I don't think research could kill a prodigally creative mind the way news exposure can. I think news takes up brain cells in an ultimately meaningless cycle, while research is at least still focused on the original goal.