Creative Creatives

Psychology Today has a well-written article on the personality of a creative person. (via Big Contrarian)

The article was extremely insightful, an outcome of thirty years of research. It goes hand-in-hand with the research on the creative process Jim Coudal is doing/has done and Hugh MacLeod's How to be Creative series.

From the article:"People often claimed to have had only two or three good ideas in their entire career, but each idea was so generative that it kept them busy for a lifetime of testing, filling out, elaborating, and applying."

"There is no question that a playfully light attitude is typical of creative individuals. But this playfulness doesn't go very far without its antithesis, a quality of doggedness, endurance, perseverance."