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- Wilsontristan, on 08/17/2008, -6/+36Its an interesting article, but everyone who reads it, including me, are going to think to themselves "man he's describing me. I must be so creative."
Admit it. - Haecceity, on 08/17/2008, -3/+25This is an old article but it makes for a fascinating anatomy of the creative mind.
- Samiyam, on 08/17/2008, -2/+18Is it just me, or does this article read like an astrology column?
- AmyVernon, on 08/17/2008, -4/+19no one could ever understand how in the meyers-briggs tests i always came out with half extrovert and half introvert personality.
- seanof, on 08/17/2008, -1/+15Look at quotes like this "Creative people are humble and proud at the same time." so if your humble then you fit the model, but if your proud you still do. Every point is 'creative people are x but also the inverse of x'. As an earlier poster pointed out anyone of reads this will come away think that they fit this profile.
- blackfox026, on 08/17/2008, -0/+12- admitted
- inactive, on 08/17/2008, -4/+16I wonder if I have a creative personality?? Hmmmmmmmm
- KingHarvest00, on 08/17/2008, -1/+13let me guess, her last job was writing horoscopes.
- darwinwins, on 08/17/2008, -0/+11my thoughts were, "wow this reads like the daily horoscope in the newspaper"-- all generalities as it applies to as many people as possible."
it's a piece of ***** article meant to appeal to everyone's egos. - darwinwins, on 08/17/2008, -2/+11the article is a piece of *****. it's the worst kind - it appeals to the ego of the reader - no matter who's reading it. this is also true of the daily horoscope you find in the paper.
- koonchu, on 08/17/2008, -3/+12An article by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (no less!) on Digg? Made my morning!
- Metasquares, on 08/18/2008, -0/+9Here's a paradox for you:
"Without this trait, poets would give up striving for perfection and would write commercial jingles, economists would work for banks where they would earn at least twice as much as they do at universities, and physicists would stop doing basic research and join industrial laboratories where the conditions are better and the expectations more predictable."
You will notice that the creative individuals, who arguably make the greatest contributions to society, are the ones profiting the least, even as they contribute the most. The fact that this paragraph is true should irritate you; the fact that it is so nonchalantly stated should outrage you.
We've constructed a society of inverted values, in which those who contribute the least are given the greatest rewards, and somehow we have accepted this to the extent that it seems no less natural a rule than 2+2=4. - GoatMonkey2112, on 08/17/2008, -0/+8I was thinking something much more creative than THAT!
If you want to know what it was, you'll have to use your imagination. - MrSkills, on 08/17/2008, -2/+9Is it me, or are most of the comments by people who are agreeing with some aspect of the article just to demonstrate that it applies to them?
- dafragsta, on 08/17/2008, -4/+9Really ***** good article. I totally agree with the part about the extacy of creativity. It's like a drug when it's flowing, especially while making music. It's like adrenaline with an opiate blast.
- cesig, on 08/17/2008, -1/+6A true creative person would have come up with something more constructive than your lame comment.
- SubjectiveC, on 08/18/2008, -0/+5By reading the responses so far, I think it's missing one bit of trivia: All creative people concentrate a majority of their time and energy posting replies on Digg.
- Technopundit, on 08/18/2008, -0/+4I'm content with the content.
- h3lx, on 08/17/2008, -0/+4I'm content with the format.
- tehcobra, on 08/17/2008, -0/+4You caught me man.
- thegrantman, on 08/17/2008, -1/+5I digg the content,not the format.
- armoreddillo, on 08/17/2008, -1/+5I dig The Format
- DeskFlyer, on 08/17/2008, -4/+8The part about the extrovert/introvert thing is very interesting because it hits home; I never thought about it like that.
- Kyoushu, on 08/17/2008, -1/+4He probably has in one of his books. Check out
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw?url=search-al ... - inactive, on 08/17/2008, -1/+4I agree, it is worse than your mom at BJ's
- SpacePoet, on 08/18/2008, -0/+3Formerly content now considering the format contentiously...
- chispito, on 08/17/2008, -0/+3That's not really that uncommon, especially for E/I.
- shinyplastic, on 08/18/2008, -0/+3Diggers, you're all very special but so is everyone else.
- blackfox026, on 08/17/2008, -0/+3but instead you should be shot
- chispito, on 08/17/2008, -0/+3I think that's the problem with a lot of personality profiling. You immediately key in on the positives points and want to believe it about yourself.
- inactive, on 08/17/2008, -0/+3well I guess we all know you're not.
- Meowbiusfox, on 08/18/2008, -0/+3Poppycock!Balderdash!
I'm not referring to the article.I just like saying those words. - TheMachine1, on 08/18/2008, -0/+3http://www.bio.psy.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/papers/abrah ...
That study showed people with ADHD were more creative than healthy controls in some tests. In one experiment the ADHD group produced more inventions than the controls but they were more likely to be non-functional. That suggest to me that noise and creativity are related. The paradox in this situation is more creativity starts to look like a random number generator or a static filled tv channel. - Technopundit, on 08/18/2008, -0/+3It ain't easy bein' green.
- rasde, on 08/17/2008, -1/+4tl;dr
- SpacePoet, on 08/18/2008, -0/+2Ihatewhenpeopledon'tknowwhowtousespaces..
- thegrantman, on 08/17/2008, -0/+2Thank-you.
- Haecceity, on 08/18/2008, -0/+2The author didn't just "go ahead and write an article about how to know if someone's creative." He's done years of research in this field and is very famous. He's studied people who are creative and looked for common characteristics.
- chispito, on 08/17/2008, -0/+2Is that you, Master Yoda?
- dstz, on 08/18/2008, -0/+2" [I am] going to think to [myself] "man he's describing me. I must be so creative."
Well, it's simple: what is your creative craft? how many hours a day, days a week, weeks a year do you spend on it? since how many years? how many satisfying artworks can you produce a week (or a day on good periods?) how often and how many people (who don't otherwise know you) praise your productions as very creative?
If you're in the clear for all of that, there are chances that every bit of this article apply to you in a way that you close ones will recognize as specific traits of your personality.
Everyone has a chance to let creativity rule their agenda. But most people get to have a chance at normal life, and they usually seize it. - Metasquares, on 08/18/2008, -0/+2I think true creativity is very often mistaken for intelligence, actually. The trail of accomplishments can become pretty long.
- Neuronyx, on 08/18/2008, -0/+2I always tell my gf that only average minds get "bored". She could never understand that how until I explained using as an example a low budget B series tv action movie, actually it's was somehow like the "jail method" only to go beyond the roles and pretty much into the real life of every actor. It was kind of .. fun.
As for the $, I think you are a perfectionist like me and you consider your "plays" only sketches still to be improved, not worthing enough to be exposed or sold to everyone at that time.
Kind of my situation too, not "selling" my ideas for the real money (like others do with theirs - despite the less value of their work) only to gain mysefl enough expertise to "fly over" others with almoust no effort.
I know it maybe sounds strange, but ideas are like music, logic is rythm, experience is like an orchestra. You have to repeat/fail/try a lot to get it right when you have the first public audition.
Btw, forgot to say: I'm a consultant in energy now, I play guitar, started as a DTP/ Art Director. Wanted to learn piano better. - Metasquares, on 08/18/2008, -0/+2Ah ha! Creative people have properties of both jerks and non-jerks!
- bluesman3535, on 08/18/2008, -0/+2Good article, but scientific and mechanical creativity are more like 'running down the bases' to see what works in theory vs practice. Artistic and musical creativity is more abstract. Overall this article seems to describe the latter two creative types. Then you have a nearly God-like person like Da Vinci or Aristotle to analyze, geniuses in many areas.
- Technopundit, on 08/18/2008, -0/+2I'm proud of my humility.
- SymbioticSounds, on 08/17/2008, -0/+2Yet when a person is working in the area of his of her expertise, worries and cares fall away, replaced by a sense of bliss. Perhaps the most important quality, the one that is most consistently present in all creative individuals, is the ability to enjoy the process of creation for its own sake. Without this trait, poets would give up striving for perfection and would write commercial jingles, economists would work for banks where they would earn at least twice as much as they do at universities, and physicists would stop doing basic research and join industrial laboratories where the conditions are better and the expectations more predictable.
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Best paragraph in the whole article. Whores might get paid, but they don't get satisfaction. - Wilsontristan, on 08/17/2008, -1/+3You must be soooooo creative. I mean damn.
- TheMachine1, on 08/18/2008, -0/+2Good articles get both right.
- SpacePoet, on 08/18/2008, -0/+1Really, you think you can describe all the nuances of a gifted or creative person in a few paragraphs? Human beings are complicated animals and i have a hard time trying to figure out why the lesser of the species behave the way they do let alone the geniuses. Not a very funny joke if you ask me... Now if you went ahead and made some kind of guess of how you would have shortened it it might have been funnier.
- thegrantman, on 08/19/2008, -0/+1If you mean they are trying to brag about being creative....no. Most of the comments are simply acknowledging some aspect of these traits in themselves.
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