The 6 Characteristics of Highly Creative People
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creativity, by Michelle L. Casto

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Thomas Moore said, “We are all poets and artists as we live our daily lives, whether or not we recognize our role and whether or not we believe it.”

Human beings have an innate need to create. Even you!

There is a continuum of creativity, ranging from being slightly creative to highly creative.

The good news is that you can learn to be more creative by observing creative people and modeling yourself after them.

Artists, writers, and creative types seem to have similar characteristics.

If you had the opportunity to speak toPicasso, Walt Disney, or Jane Austen, you wouldprobably find out that they are ordinary people, muchlike you and I.

The difference is that they haveallowed more of their soul to come out and play andhave freed themselves of convention and restriction.

Creativity is essentially the art of discovery and anact of faith. When you create something--- a work ofart, book, software program, dance routine, or rolefor a play, you discover parts of yourself that younever knew existed.

Creative people have a strong need to express more of who you really are and often have to fight for that right. The character Isabelle in the movie, Fire and Ice, has a great outlook onwhat it means to be creative, she says, “To create, sometimes you must rebel.”

1. Unconventional

Creative people do not feel the need to conform tosociety’s standards. They often swim against thecurrent and flow with their own way of thinking andliving. They have original ideas that literally turnthe world upside down and right-side out.

Take for example, the 16th century Italian astronomer,Galileo, who proved that the earth revolved around thesun (instead of the other way around), which wasrevolutionary in his time.

2. Individualistic

Creative people want to find out what the truth is,and they have a strong need to decide for themselveswhat works and what does not.

Often they are ahead oftheir time, and much of their work isappreciated/acknowledged after they are dead and gone.

Many writers are famous for marching to the tune oftheir own drum, such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, who wrotethe book, Self-Reliance, and Robert Frost who penned,”two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the oneless-traveled.”

3. Inventive

Creative people live in the world of ideas, and don’talways have the best interpersonal skills. Becausethey are so highly intelligent, and live in the realmof possibility, they are constantly coming up withbright ideas.

They also take notice of what ismissing in the world and/or what could be improved. Take for instance, Thomas Edison, who inventedhundreds of things in his time, his most famousinvention being the light bulb. He saw that there wasdarkness and then created light.

4. DrivenCreative people cannot "not do something” they arealmost compulsive until they can bring their internalvision into fruition. They have that fire in theirbelly---a passion to contribute to the beauty andbetterment of the world. Because of their high drive,they can produce a lot in a relative short amount oftime.

Talk about drive---the material girl herself, Madonna,has not let public praise or criticism stop her frombeing a super star.

She is a modern day Diva,multi-talented as a singer, dancer, and actress whohas released hundreds of songs, albums, videos,movies, books--- all the while reinventing herself assomeone new.

5.Visionary

Creative people have a guiding vision in their head,heart, and soul that they are often called to bring tolife. Who else but Michelangelo could look at a largepiece of marble and chip away at everything thatwasn’t David. According to him, ”I saw an angel inthe marble and carved until I set him free.”

One of his best-known works is the immense ceiling ofthe Sistine Chapel, which took him three years tocomplete, where he often had to work upside down forhours at a time. If you ever have seen any of hiswork, you can easily see that it is a vision tobehold.

6. Intuitive

Creative people are very in touch with their innerselves. They pay attention to the signs,synchronicities, symbols around them, and make use ofthat information in their work.

They often act as achannel, where ideas and inspiration come from ahigher plane. They allow the work to guide them towhere it needs to go. The work clearly originates intheir soul, not from their ego.

Talk about ideas coming from out of the blue, rememberhow the scientist, Isaac Newton discovered gravity ?

He was sitting under a tree and an apple fell on hishead! Had he not made a connection with his intuitivenature, he would have missed a major theory about theworld we live in!

As you read this, do you find yourself relating tosome of these traits? If so, it is time to startcreating. Getting started can often be the hardestpart, because we often limit our creativity bylistening too closely to our negative inner voice.

But so did all of these examples of creators. Eventhe famous painter Vincent Van Gogh struggled withthat, but he created a remedy for that, he said, “Ifyou hear a voice within you saying, you are not apainter, then by all means, paint, and that voice willbe silenced.”

Robert Henri says, "When the artist is alive in anyperson, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomesan inventive, searching, daring, self-expressingcreature."

Once you have created, you now have to putyourself out there for all to see. This is where yourfaith comes in to support you.

Remember that if youare creating from your soul, it will not matterwhether other people accept your work or not. You aresimply doing what you are called to do as a humanbeing, create.

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