creativity

Making variations on themes {creativity, imagination} can find meaningful concept components and make new patterns. Creativity involves using irrational or unrelated ideas to construct something new.

requirements

Creativity requires alternating problem concentration and conscious-control relaxation.

factors

Creative people can be withdrawn, skeptical, preoccupied, precise, critical, dominant, introspective, restrained, solemn, independent, curious, hard-working, enthusiastic, motivated, confident, intelligent, unreliable, dirty, and irresponsible. They can avoid social contacts, avoid personal controversy, have high ego, control impulses, use abstract thinking, tolerate cognitive ambiguity, and be independent in judgment. Creative people tend to think about one problem only. Creative people like new, unsettling, challenging, asymmetric, complex, live, and playful things, and only moderate stress.

People can like new things, challenges, unsettling ideas, asymmetry, complexity, aliveness, to play with ideas, to do uncompleted things, and to analyze themselves and others.

Creativity associates with imagery use, fantasizing, hypnotizability, and absorption [Hadamard, 1945] [Hudson, 1973] [Poincaré, 1952] [Schooler et al., 1993] [Schooler and Melcher, 1995] [Smith et al., 1995].

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