What If Creativity and Trauma Shared a Common Thread?

Dear supporter,

There is a Link Between Attention, Healing, and AI Innovation!

Creative minds are often celebrated for thinking outside the box—but science suggests their gift may stem from something deeper: how they process information and focus attention.

A fascinating study by Dorfman et al. (2007) explored the relationship between creative potential and speed of information processing. The results?

Highly creative individuals react faster to simple tasks—but slower when distractions are involved. Why? Because their brains allow more seemingly irrelevant information into focus—what scientists call defocused attention.

This isn’t just a trait of artists or visionaries. It may also explain the cognitive patterns of trauma survivors.

When you’ve lived through trauma, your mind becomes highly sensitive to emotional cues and background noise—sometimes at the expense of focused thinking. But this heightened perception can also be a strength—if properly guided.

At MyWhatIf, we’re exploring how AI can help re-channel this attentional openness. Our platform uses adaptive prompts to help trauma survivors process, reframe, and integrate emotional experiences—supporting healing and creativity in tandem.

💡 Your donation helps us design AI tools that meet trauma survivors where they are—emotionally and neurologically.

🔗 Learn more by reading the article: Creativity and speed of information processing: A double dissociation involving elementary versus inhibitory cognitive tasks

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0191886907004485?via%3Dihub

With gratitude,
The MyWhatIf Team

Omer Golan, 
Founder and CEO

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