Aging and Creativity

I find Gene D. Cohen’s essay on Creativity and Aging to be encouraging (A Guide to Humanistic Studies in Aging 2010). Dr. Cohen is challenging conventional wisdom regarding what researchers in the past have chosen to either disbelieve or ignore; Creativity increases with age. I find his Creativity equation fascinating.

C=me2 (square)

According to Dr. Cohen, creativity (C) is the result of our mass (m) of knowledge, multiplied by the effects of our two dimensions of experience (e-squared). The first dimension is our inner world experience reflecting maturity through psychological and emotional growth over the years. The second dimension is our outer world encounters, reflecting the accumulated life experiences as we interact with all that is around us.

What do you think of Cohen's Creativity equation?