#107 of 200 - 52 Traits of HIGHLY Creative People We All Can Develop
TTCT - Dr. E. Paul Torrance's tests evaluate/measure a list of 20 traits or skills.
In 1980 I chose 32 of the most commonly written about traits of HIGHLY Creative people from a chart of 450+ traits that 150+/- experts had written about between 1950 and 1980 in 4 professional journals: 2 educational, 2 psychological to use as an opening measure of whether people are created or act creatively.
Here are all the 52 traits combined.
There are many more traits of creative thinking that can be developed through practice and application.
Take time each day to think abstractly not just realistically.
Choose to be Adaptable as often as you can.
Collect Breakthru Ideas when you read them, hear them or discover them yourself.
Then ask yourself "will this idea be a breakthru idea?"
Practice CHANGING CONTEXT as often as you can while thinking about challenges and problems.
Deliberately combine ideas: pairs, trios, quads, etc.
Periodically choose to be curious. Practice your curiosity muscles. Read new magazines, books, articles about subjects you know nothing about.
Daily practice thinking divergently.
Doodle, sketch, draw in your notes or just for fun: symbols, diagrams, stick figures. Take a drawing class
Examine yourself. What energizes you? Music, fine art, famous quotes, inspirations,.....energize yourself daily
Use your ability to fantacize. Imagine, Pretend, Day Dream
Work on developing and expanding your abilities to Perceive, Perceive things differently than you have before.
Work on your skills of seeing things from multiple perspectives
Play with thinking provocative thoughts
Increase the number of questions you ask each day
Find ways to make your life, work, play, thinking more colorful each day.
5 more traits of Highly Creative People that we ALL can continually develop and expand in our personal and work lives.
Practice reliving, remembering your fantasy life from your childhood
Begin expressing your feelings and emotions more
Focus on sense your feelings and emotions more
Continue to increase your flexibility in problem situations
Fluency - increase yours by generating 6 probable to possible to potential ideas. When you do that automatically then push yourself to 12 then 24 then.....144 and beyond.
Think about the future before you begin to solve a problem.
Explore unique senses of humor. Listen to comedy cd's, tv shows. Go to comedy clubs. Take a class in stand-up comedy.
Use varied senses of humor, not just your normal ones.
Deliberately look at the funny side. Read comedy books. Read Laughing Matters by Joel Goodman. Go to his annual Humor Conference.
increase your creativeness and creative thinking skills by practicing thinking about idealistic things each day.
let your imagination fly again, dream, pretend, see what you want to happen some each day
choose to be you, be independent while also respecting and accepting the need to be interdependent and interdependent while trying to lessen you need to be dependent
each day take time to think of ingenious, impossible, highly improprobable ideas.
Learn something new each day.
listen to more much and sound and focus more to sense change, contrast, character, details
practice regularly on combining ideas, logically, randomly, with others or alone.
examine yourself for how you are a non-conformist or not. Then experiment in small ways to become more non-conforming
re-examine why money is important or not important to you. What do you truly desire, want, need? Is it the money you strive for or what the money can purchase.
Strive to generate 6 to12 optional ideas before choosing one. Stay more open-ended.
Strive not to immediately go to the first answer, explore a variety of different probably to possible to maybe answers.
Choose to continue looking for or creating new and unique answers, ones you normally would not think of.
find things in your work that truly inspire you or you are proud to passionate about
Look at the world, problems, opportunities from a variety of perspectives or viewpoints not only your current ones.
Strive to generate 6 to12 optional ideas before choosing one. Stay more open-ended.
Strive not to immediately go to the first answer, explore a variety of different probably to possible to maybe answers.
Choose to continue looking for or creating new and unique answers, ones you normally would not think of.
find things in your work that truly inspire you or you are proud to passionate about
Look at the world, problems, opportunities from a variety of perspectives or viewpoints not only your current ones.
41. make lists of 6 to 12 possibilities each time until it is a habit. Then increase to 18 to 24.
42. study yourself, read motivational books, self-help books, ask for 360 feedback from friends and relatives.
43. think about what are your most unique and strongest strengths, skills or abilities and focus on developing them.
44. set goals. work from schedules. focus on fewer and fewer things and complete more and more of them on a regular basis.
45. examine your life for examples of how you may have a specific destiny, unique to you.
46. work on developing your abilities to be sympathetic and empathetic about things around you, that happen to you, happen to friends, family, colleagues, to total strangers in other countries.
47. Severely Critical: self, work, potential of what they are passionate about, potential they see in other people.
continually strive to improve while at the same time not being too obsessed and critical that your destroy yourself.
48. choose one or a few specific interests to throw yourself into and work at developing your knowledge and skills rather than having endless lists of interests that tend to scatter you.
49. work on developing your skills to synthesize the whole from the parts. Practice with jigsaw puzzles, mysteries, mental challenges.
50. work at being open to multiple "right" or "correct" or "possible" answers to the same problems.
51. experiment with taking multiple viewpoints, perspectives, mindsets even ones you generally dislike or disagree with.
52. sketch, image, use your Third Eye to see, doodle, draw your thoughts, learn visual recording skills.
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