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Creative styles – what’s in fashion now?
Does creativity equate with keeping up with the latest trends? I wince a bit at this thought and realize how many people assume “early adopter” is same as creativity. I realize that no one comes up with ideas in a … Continue reading
Creativity and the blame game
The emphasis on creativity as a way to provide an economic boost has been followed by a plethora of publications on how to be more creative. But taking those ideas to heart may not be the best move. More than … Continue reading
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Tagged creative leaders, Kirton Adaption-Innovation Inventory, M.J. Kirton
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Normal people?
William Moulton Marston theory published in his book Emotions of Normal People [1] is known by its initials DISC. It bears resemblance to the four temperaments recorded by the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates. Marston even created a diagram connecting the color wheel (with … Continue reading
Personality per the ancient Greeks
Many of the current personality tests are built on older theories—sometimes much older theories. Around 2400 years ago, the physician Hippocrates described his idea that human moods were caused by an excess or lack of basic body fluids. Too much … Continue reading
Do we really want creative leaders?
Look though recent articles on leadership and you will find that creativity to be the newest rage. A few years back (in 2010 to be exact) IBM’s Institute for Business Value conducted a survey of 1,500 chief executives and discovered … Continue reading
Creativity and social skills: a chicken and egg question
Creative people are known for being antisocial, hard to get along with, or just plain “crazy.” Sometimes these epithets occur because these people have a tendency to do something causes much of the population to cringe–criticize authorities. When the criticism … Continue reading
Extrovert or Introvert?
“One of the more consistent findings from the personality literature of artists is that they tend to be rather introverted” [1] It seems logical for the creative people, particularly the artist, writer, and composer, to be introverted individuals. They are … Continue reading
A twist in traits
The Myers Briggs Type Inventory (MBTI) is probably one of the most widely known personality type assessments. Isabel Briggs Myers and her mother Katharine Cook Briggs developed it from theories recorded by the well know psychologist Carl Jung. Neither Myers … Continue reading
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Tagged creative personality, extraversion, five factor model, introversion, Meyers Briggs type inventory
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Creative Semantics
Early psychology was considered a science that dealt with the causes and treatment of mental illness. Famed psychologist such as Sigmund Freud worked with neurotic and psychotic patients. His theories of psychoanalysis and resulting model of mental structure were based … Continue reading
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Tagged creative ability, creative acheivement, five factor model, semantics
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Creative compared to whom?
In the twentieth century, experimental psychological shifted from the study of the mentally ill to research on the cognitive and personality development of basically normal people. Soon there was a plethora of theoretical models on the formation of personality, with … Continue reading
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