Creative Minds
...dividual: (most likely the creative person) someone who enjoys formulating problems and creating new systems of rules and new ways of seeing things. Executive Style: someone who likes implementing the systems, rules, and tasks of others. Judicial Style: Someone who enjoys evaluating people, things and rules. 4-PERSONALITY: creative people seem to have consistent attributes: Tolerance of ambiguity, willingness to surmount obstacles and persevere willingness to grow, willingness to take risks, and courage of ones convictions. Although some people can be creative at times without these attributes, in the long run creativity requires the majority of them. 5- MOTIVATION: Desire to achieve competence and excel in ones every day tasks. Sternberg and Lubart introduce two kinds of motivation that they feel leads children to focus on tasks rather then external rewards. Intrinsic: Motivation that one develops when they are interested in a subject. People are much more likely to be creative when they enjoy the task at hand and seldom expect external rewards. They believe that if someone enjoys a task and sees how it pertains to them or can relate to the subject at hand then they find reward in learning more about it. In this case external rewards like grades hinder ones creativity. Motivation to Excel: The need to feel competent, and feel as though you excel in an area. Schools can hinder this because the kind of excellence that is encouraged is not creative excellence. Its hard for students to be creative when they are expected to excel in so many areas. 6-ENVIRONMENTAL CONTEXT: Creativity is different in each environmental context. You can not have the same creative idea in several subjects. What one subject might see as creative could be perceived in another as questionable. T...