Personal experience, but it's also been born out by studies: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/creativity-the-art-and-science/201909/what-emotions-help-c

Personal experience, but it's also been born out by studies: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/creativity-the-art-and-science/201909/what-emotions-help-creativity https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/creativity-the-art-a... https://hbr.org/2015/08/the-emotions-that-make-us-more-creative https://hbr.org/2015/08/the-emotions-that-make-us-more-creat... https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02660/full https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.0266... TL;DR: It's not the specific emotion that matters (indeed, there's evidence that having mixed emotions, where you can synthesize aspects of them, is crucial to creativity), it's the motivational intensity behind it.