Creative Personality
Creativity is not just a collection of intellectual abilities. It is also a personality type, a way of thinking and living. Although creative people tend to be unconventional, they share common traits. For example, creative thinkers are confident, independent, and risk-taking. They are perceptive and have good intuition. They display flexible, original thinking. They dare to differ, make waves, challenge traditions, and bend a few rules. One particularly common trait of creative people is enthusiasm.
The phrases "driving absorption," "high commitment," "passionate interest," and "unwilling to give up" describe most creative people. The high energy also appears in adventurous and thrill-seeking activities. Curiosity and wide interests are related traits. A good sense of humor is common in creative people. Creative people tend to have a childlike sense of wonder and intrigue, and an experimental nature. They may take things apart to see how they work, explore old attics or odd museums, or explore unusual hobbies and collections. In other words, "the creative adult is essentially a perpetual child—the tragedy is that most of us grow up." Another interesting combination some creative people display is a tolerance for complexity and ambiguity and an attraction to the mysterious. Creative thinking requires working with incomplete ideas: relevant facts are missing; rules are cloudy, "correct" procedures nonexistent. And the challenge enjoying
Creativity is one of the most mysterious aspects of the human mind. High intelligence is not sufficient for creativity although it is quite likely that creative innovation might require communication between regions of the brain. First thing needed for creativity is rich associative network, neural space capable of supporting complex states. Second thing needed for creativity is imagination, the ability to combine together in many ways local brain activations in larger coherent wholes. Third thing needed for creativity is filtering, granting access to the working memory of only the most interesting products of imagination.
Creativity is therefore a product of ordinary neurocognitive processes. Problems that require creativity are difficult to solve because neural circuits representing object features and variables that characterize the problem have only weak connections, and the probability of forming appropriate sequence of activities is very small.
I think possessing gifts is not enough; the gifts must be shared. Creativity does not mean arrogance or independence. We all still a part of a society and need very much the contribution of others. Instead, a little humility can help steer clear of disaster; then, the ego will not adversely affects performance. Creative people tend to approach the world in a fresh and original way that is not shaped by preconceptions. The obvious order and rules that are so evident to less creative people, and which give a comfortable situation to life, are often not perceived. Adventure and rebelliousness are often coupled with playfulness; they may push the limits of social conventions, they are driven by their own set of rules derived from within.
The phrases "driving absorption," "high commitment," "passionate interest," and "unwilling to give up" describe most creative people. The high energy also appears in adventurous and thrill-seeking activities. Curiosity and wide interests are related traits. A good sense of humor is common in creative people. Creative people tend to have a childlike sense of wonder and intrigue, and an experimental nature. They may take things apart to see how they work, explore old attics or odd museums, or explore unusual hobbies and collections. In other words, "the creative adult is essentially a perpetual child—the tragedy is that most of us grow up." Another interesting combination some creative people display is a tolerance for complexity and ambiguity and an attraction to the mysterious. Creative thinking requires working with incomplete ideas: relevant facts are missing; rules are cloudy, "correct" procedures nonexistent. And the challenge enjoying
Creativity is one of the most mysterious aspects of the human mind. High intelligence is not sufficient for creativity although it is quite likely that creative innovation might require communication between regions of the brain. First thing needed for creativity is rich associative network, neural space capable of supporting complex states. Second thing needed for creativity is imagination, the ability to combine together in many ways local brain activations in larger coherent wholes. Third thing needed for creativity is filtering, granting access to the working memory of only the most interesting products of imagination.
Creativity is therefore a product of ordinary neurocognitive processes. Problems that require creativity are difficult to solve because neural circuits representing object features and variables that characterize the problem have only weak connections, and the probability of forming appropriate sequence of activities is very small.
I think possessing gifts is not enough; the gifts must be shared. Creativity does not mean arrogance or independence. We all still a part of a society and need very much the contribution of others. Instead, a little humility can help steer clear of disaster; then, the ego will not adversely affects performance. Creative people tend to approach the world in a fresh and original way that is not shaped by preconceptions. The obvious order and rules that are so evident to less creative people, and which give a comfortable situation to life, are often not perceived. Adventure and rebelliousness are often coupled with playfulness; they may push the limits of social conventions, they are driven by their own set of rules derived from within.