[Jamurai]

If the article is correct, then ironically, reading this article made me less creative.

But I certainly think there's something to be said for detaching from external stimuli and taking quiet time. Last weekend my phone ran out of batteries early in the afternoon and I was without internet/mobile until I got home late that night. I had all sorts of realizations about my area of work--things that I was looking to answers for externally but hadn't taken the time to process myself.

[lubujackson]

Well, you didn't get an opportunity to be creative while reading the article, but I don't think it made you "less creative". Both engagement and solitude are important - engagement to activate your imagination and solitude to provide the room to imagine.