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Characteristics of Creative Persons

Creative persons tend to be high in self-confidence, independence, risk-taking, curiosity, and reflectiveness. They are more perceptive and intuitive with an interest in aesthetic and artistic pursuits. Creative problem solving requires tolerating ambiguity. Historically eminent writers and artists often displayed mental disturbances. Creativity involves skillful movement, absorption in creative activities, and responsiveness to sound. While creativity can be developed through problem solving exercises and divergent thinking, the creative process typically involves preparation, incubation, illumination, and verification.

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Characteristics of Creative Persons

Creative persons tend to be high in self-confidence, independence, risk-taking, curiosity, and reflectiveness. They are more perceptive and intuitive with an interest in aesthetic and artistic pursuits. Creative problem solving requires tolerating ambiguity. Historically eminent writers and artists often displayed mental disturbances. Creativity involves skillful movement, absorption in creative activities, and responsiveness to sound. While creativity can be developed through problem solving exercises and divergent thinking, the creative process typically involves preparation, incubation, illumination, and verification.

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Characteristics of creative persons 1. Creative persons frequently are high in self-confidence, independence, adventurousness, risk-taking, energy, enthusiasm, curiosity, play-fullness, humor, idealism, and reflectiveness. 2. They tend to be more perceptive and intuitive. 3. They tend to have aesthetic and artistic interest attracted to the complex and mysterious. 4. They need privacy and alone time. 5. They are willing to tolerate the ambiguity that accompanies engaging in creative problem solving. 6. The admirable characteristics of independence and high energy, combined with nonconformity and unconventionality, may lead to stubbornness, resistance to teacher or parent domination. 7. They can also appear to be uncooperative, indifferent to accepted conventions, cynic, assertive, sloppy, question authority, disregard details, overactive, forgetful, and uncommunicative. 8. They are often misdiagnosed as ADHD. 9. A vast majority of historically eminent persons, writers and artists were mentally disturbed. (Walberg, 1988 and Richards, 1990, 1999). Creativeness in the kinesthetic and auditory areas (torrance) 1. Shows skillful, manipulative movement in crayon work, typing, piano playing, cooking, dressmaking, etc. 2. Shows quick, precise movements in mime, creative dramatics and role playing 3. Works at creative movement activities for extended periods of time 4. Displays total bodily involvement in interpreting a poem, story, or song. 5. Becomes intensely absorbed in creative movement or dance 6. Interprets songs, poems, or stories through creative movement or dance 7. Writes, draws, walks, and moves with rhythm and is generally highly responsive to sound stimuli

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8. Creates music, songs, etc. (perseveres) . Can creativity be thought? 1. Yes/No 2. It is absolutely true that everyones personal creativity can be improved. 3. Integrate problem solving activities in daily lessons. 4. Use divergent thinking exercises as brainstorming activities. (223)

Creative process models The Wallas Model (1926) Preparation, Incubation, Illumination, Verification Principles of creative thinking 1. Creativity will help you live a more interesting, successful, and enjoyable life. 2. Creative people are not rigid; they look at things from different points of view. 3. Creative people are aware of pressures to conform to be like everybody else. 4. Creative people use their talents, not waste them. 5. Creative thinking includes taking risks and making mistakesand the more creative the idea, the greater the risks of mistakes and failures. 6. Creative people play with ideas, consider lots of possibilities, use techniques, think analogically, evaluate their ideas, and get their ideas, and get their ideas into action.

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