Is there a ‘standard’ creative process or is it different for everyone? With that said, can anyone be creative? Psychologists Guillaume Furst, Paolo Ghisletta and Todd Lubart define three personality “super-factors” that can predict ones creative prowess: Plasticity, Divergence, and Convergence. They define divergent thinkers as non-conformists, impulsive, not very agreeable, not being very thorough, and come across as jerks.
Hmmm, I have to think about that one . . . ‘Mirror mirror on the wall . . .’ ~Cornell
Check out the recent Scientific American article, The Messy Minds of Creative People By Scott Barry Kaufman which discus their work.
The Messy Minds of Creative People
The creative process– from the first drop of paint on the canvas to the art exhibition– involves a mix of emotions, drives, skills, and behaviors. It’d be miraculous if these emotions, traits and behaviors didn’t often conflict with each other during the creative process, creating inner and outer tension. Indeed, creative people are often seen as weird, odd, and eccentric.
Over the years, scientists have attempted to capture the personality of creative people. But it hasn’t been easy putting them under the microscope. As psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, who has interviewed creative people across various fields points out, creative people “show tendencies of thought and action that in most people are segregated. They contain contradictory extremes; instead of being an “individual,” each of them is a “multitude.” << More >>
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/2014/12/24/the-messy-minds-of-creative-people/
