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Part of webinar:Creative People: Personality and Mental Health
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Creative People : Insecurity and Androgyny
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Presenter: Douglas EbyM.A. / Psychology
Creator of the Talent Development
Resources series of sites
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CREATIVITY RESEARCHER MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI
Following points are from a summary of his article "The
Creative Personality: Ten paradoxical traits of the creative
personality":
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Convergent (rational, left brain, sound judgment) and divergent (intuitive, right
brain, visionary) thinking…
Both extroverted and introverted, needing people and solitude equally.
Humble and proud, both painfully self-doubting and wildly self-confident.
May defy gender stereotypes, and are likely to have not only the strengths of their own
gender but those of the other as well.
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“Part of me suspects that I’m a loser, and the other part of me thinks I’m God Almighty.”
John Lennon
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Tilda Swinton once commented she is “very often referred to as ‘Sir’ in elevators and such...I think people just can’t
imagine I’d be a woman if I look like this.”
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“Gifted women tend to be highly androgynous… they
tend to combine qualities that we ascribe to both genders."
Kathleen Noble
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Photo: Sandra Tsing Loh is a Caltech graduate in physics and an accomplished writer, performer, radio
commentator, contributing editor, etc.
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