What are creative people like? As we saw in my prior post , various creativity researchers tend to converge on the same conclusion: creative people are complex . Creative people have a great deal of physical energy, but often need their rest. They tend to be both introverted and extroverted at the same darn time. And perhaps most strikingly, their high levels of openness to experience and sensitivity expose them to great suffering and pain as well as intense joy and euphoria. [More]

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