The Creative Person


The creative person:

• does not refuse to face his/her own emotions, anxieties, and fantasies

• is better able to face, without fear and anxiety, impulses and imagery arising from more primitive and unconscious layers of his/her personality

• is peculiarly gifted in seeing the gap between what is and what could be (which means, of course, that he/she has achieved a certain measure of detatchment from what actually is)

• has a capacity to tolerate internal conflict, a willingness to suspend judgment

• is not uncomfortable in the presence of unanswered questions or unresolved differences

• does not find it difficult to give expression to opposite sides of his/her nature at the same time

• has not been trapped by the rigidities that immobilize less creative people

(author unknown)

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