Got to love this article! Is this you?
- Associative orientation: Imaginative, playful, have a wealth of ideas, ability to be committed, sliding transitions between fact and fiction.
- Need for originality: Resists rules and conventions. Have a rebellious attitude because of a need to do things no one else does.
- Motivation: Have a need to perform, goal oriented, innovative attitude, stamina to tackle difficult issues.
- Ambition: Have a need to be influential, attract attention and recognition.
- Flexibility: Have the ability to see different aspects of issues and come up with optimal solutions.
- Low emotional stability: Have a tendency to experience negative emotions, greater fluctuations in moods and emotional state, failing self-confidence.
- Low sociability: Have a tendency not to be very considerate, are obstinate and find faults and flaws in ideas and people.
Some good, some bad. Here's the article by Emily Anderson: http://www.good.is/posts/researchers-discover-the-seven-characteristics-of-a-creative-personality?utm_source=5.7.13+ENEWS&utm_campaign=5.7.13+ENEWS&utm_medium=email
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Yeah...pretty accurate...except I feel I am pretty considerate.
Researchers...? a researcher at a business school doesn't particularly come across as a creative person
Yes. YES. Oh, HELL YES. Definitely. Yes. Absolutely NOT me. DEFINITELY NOT.
I don't know why creatives would have low emotional stability. It seems to me that you would NEED to be self-confident in order to produce art.