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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Why are we more creative when trying to solve other's problems?

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gpt
Two main reasons:

First, you have no personal stakes in the consequences so you're less likely to write off an option because of the potential negatives. For example, if you hear someone complaining about their job, you may say "just quit!" even though you haven't quit your job you dislike.

The other is everyone has a different perspective on things. Your ideas may not be more creative than theirs, simply different; the thing is though, if their ideas *had* worked, they wouldn't have the problem anymore. You only see the problems that their approach failed to solve, and not all the problems their approach took care of.