I was reading some creativity blog sites recently and came across this very insightful blog post on www.copyblogger.com written by Dean Rieck who is a highly creative and successful direct marketing copywriter. He basically outlines and describes eleven traits shared by highly creative people. Being not only a creative person but someone who also works with creative people all day every day, I found this information interesting and figured I would share the basic points. As a creative person, or someone who knows a creative person, feel free to fill in your own insights as to examples of how these apply in real life.
I think if more people had insight into creative people and how a creative brain works, the world would be much more interesting..... Now on to the eleven traits of highly creative people:
- Have the COURAGE to try new things and risk failure.
- Use INTUITION as well as logic to make decisions and produce ideas.
- Like to PLAY, since humor and fun are the ultimate creative act.
- Are EXPRESSIVE and willing to share what they feel and think, to be themselves.
- Can FIND ORDER in confusion and discover hidden meaning in information.
- Are MOTIVATED BY A TASK rather than by external rewards.
- Have a need to FIND SOLUTIONS to challenging problems.
- Will CHALLENGE ASSUMPTIONS and ask hard questions to discover what is real.
- Can MAKE CONNECTIONS between old ideas to produce new insights.
- Will PUSH THE ENVELOPE in order to expand the boundaries of what is possible.
- Are willing to TEST new ideas and compete with others based on results.
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