Deepening understanding of human creativity

Description

Deepening understanding of human creativity involves systematically fostering environments and practices that encourage original thinking, problem-solving, and innovation. This strategy aims to identify and remove barriers to creative expression, promote interdisciplinary collaboration, and integrate creative skills into education and organizational processes. By doing so, it remedies stagnation, resistance to change, and limited problem-solving capacity, enabling individuals and communities to generate novel solutions to complex challenges and adapt more effectively to evolving circumstances.

Claim

Highly creative people deliberately challenge, shake, destabilize, frustrate and disintegrate themselves in order to reassemble the parts better. They know how to set aside control when they need to. To this end they cultivate being both masculine and feminine, logical and emotional, rational and idealistic, excitable and fair-minded, and they move back and forth continuously between such poles. They score both lower and higher than the average person on several scales of clinical personality tests, coming out as slightly more "neurotic'" or "psychotic" on measures of anxiety, depression, schizophrenia and deviance. At the same time, however, the also get high scores for stability and "ego-strength", the power to rally from setback and generally cope with adversity.