How many times was playing a musical instrument part of the main criteria asked in a job offer? Me I’ve never seen in it in a job offer, nor did I have the question asked at any of my job interviews. Maybe sports, because it is generally perceived as something that says something about your character. It is however less percieved as something that says something about your way of working or solving problems. I’ve always thought it does but while many people agree with me most of them don’t work for a Human Resource department. This is just not how we learn it on the Human resource schools nowadays, is it?
I recently came across a research that, together with other researches should change this perspective which it wont because it was not exactly the headline on the news. While it was readable in Brain and Cognition. I have not been able to find it any management magazines.
The main idea was that, besides the fact that musicians generally have a higher IQ, they are also found to be more able to think out of the box and come up with more creative solutions to problems than people that don’t. This is not just a result of more creative thinking but also of the left and right sides of their frontal cortex being more heavily used than with the average person.
I thought this was very interesting, especially because in times of crisis we need to stand out, no?