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I read the introduction to the Test Your Creative Thinking Book the other day and firstly wanted to share a few extracts.

"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honours the servant and has forgotten the gift" - Albert Einstien

"Creative thinking is all about having ideas. The ultimate purpose is to bring into existence something startlingly original, culturally acceptable and useful too." p.2

It briefly covers some interesting points about the neurology of the brain. Left/right stuff again ie. left produces raw data, right then plays with the data comes up with creative ideas then the left analyzes the ideas to decide if they are crap or not.

The book then goes on to talk about common characteristics of noted creatives. This was the bit I found a little creepy as all of these points are accurate descriptions of me. So either I'm gonna be a creative genius or the characteristics could be universal cold reading type characteristics that most people would associate with?

"A characteristic of creative thinkers is that they like to do things in novel and unusual ways. They are not afraid to take risks and try new ideas, even though they might be wrong and appear foolish. As the poet Johann Wolfegang von Goethe said, 'Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.'
They also possess something called entelechy, which is the vital force that pushes you to make the most of your potential and work towards a specific goal. According to psychologist Howard Gruber, 'the creative person cannot simply be driven, he (or she) must be drawn to his work by visions, hopes, joy of discovery, love of truth, and sensuous pleasure in the creative activity itself.' Being iconoclastic and having a disregard for routine and order, creative thinkers can tend to live chaotically. But this is not necessarily a bad thing. In fact A A Milne, the author of Winnie the Pooh, said, 'One of the advantages of bieng disorderly is taht one is contently making exciting discoveries.'
Creative individuals have a child like sense of playfulness and wonder as well as an unquenchable zest for life. It is as if they never grew up. Consequently, they tend not to take things too seriously and so retain their natural spontaneity. Also, they do not become complacent or allow their thought process to become predictable or stuck in a rut."