Is Creativity a Young Person’s Game?

There's an unspoken assumption, particularly in America, that youth and creativity tend to go hand in hand.

It's no surprise: Many of the artistic greats, from Jack Kerouac and Bob Dylan to Zadie Smith and Taylor Swift, found immense success when they were young. The fastest-growing startups—Meta, Snapchat, Airbnb and so on—were founded by twenty-somethings, some of whom never graduated from college. A quote frequently attributed to Albert Einstein holds that scientists who have not made a great contribution to their fields before the age of 30 will never do so in their lifetimes. As one of my chemist colleagues, at 55, told me, "Science is a young man's game."

But can we generalize from these anecdotes? Can we really conclude young people are more creative than their older counterparts? To answer this question, we need to determine when people are at their creative peak, and to do that, we need to delve into the science of creativity.

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