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Creative People Are Willing to Cross Boundaries – Part 2
How does the intensity, complexity and “border-crossing” of creative people encourage being more creative? Creative people often have personalities and inner experiences that are intense and beyond...
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The Complex Personality of Creative People
“If there is one word that makes creative people different from others, it is the word complexity.” Writer Juliet Bruce, PhD adds that creativity researcher Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (pronounced me-high...
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Creative Thinking and Perfectionism
Filmmaking, writing novels, fashion design and many other forms of creative expression often demand an obsessive attention to detail, and even rely on a certain level or quality of perfectionism in the...
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Creative People Are Willing to Cross Boundaries
Creative people often have personalities and inner experiences that are intense and beyond ordinary in multiple ways. “I’ve been accused of being ‘too much’ all my life. Too loud, too fast, too smart,...
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Stephen A. Diamond on Anger and Creativity
Dr. Stephen A. Diamond is a licensed clinical and forensic psychologist in private practice, and a member of the Approved Panel of Psychiatrists and Psychologists for the criminal division of the Los...
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Personality Traits and Being More Creative
Creativity researcher and author Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi describes a number of pairs of “paradoxical” traits exhibited by creative people, such as both convergent and divergent thinking; extroverted...
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Doing Creative Work: Preparation, Performing, Perfectionism
Preparation is often a crucial part of creative work, and many, if not most, creative people are highly sensitive – which can enhance this preparation. With something like twenty percent of us being...
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Gender Identity and Being Creative
How do you identify yourself in terms of gender? How does gender identity impact how we express our creativity? One aspect of gender and identity is androgyny. Actor Tilda Swinton once commented: “The...
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A personality trait that may often accompany high sensitivity (experienced by many, or most, creative people) is high intensity. You can see some forms of intensity in many actors and musicians. Jodie...
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