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March 22, 2004:
8 Traits Of All Creative People
Interview with Andrew N. Williams, author of How Do You Compare

Andrew N. Williams:
Firstly, they take risks, they stick their neck out, and they explore, they have this daring to be different.

Psychologist and researcher Andrew Williams, author of the book How Do You Compare...

They are also willing to stand-alone; you know in expressing new ideas is risky from a psychological standpoint. And you have to be willing to sort of stand out from the crowd. Creative individuals also acquire knowledge, although occasionally creativity comes out of ignorance. Those people who are truly creative are brilliant at acquiring knowledge about the individual aspects, you know, be it writing or painting or an inventor, that type of thing.

Creative people take a very analytical approach to their work, and they always love what they do, because you can't be creative if you don't.

Creativity also requires dreaming. Quite often you hear creative people say, "well it just popped into my head," or "I was just jogging when these ideas came to me." Creative people know that they need to open up their minds a little bit and let the process happen.

And creativity, not only means coming up with good ideas, but also implementing them.

You know you hear about people saying well I could have invented that, or I could have done that, you know, sitting in their armchair. What the truly creative have the ideas and are able to implement them. It's a misconception that the creative are only dreamers, they actually make things happen.

You can link to Andrew's web site from ours somethingyoushouldknow.net, I'm Mike Carruthers and that's Something You Should Know.