creative people: insecurity and androgyny

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Creative People : Insecurity and Androgyny

Presenter: Douglas EbyM.A. / Psychology

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CREATIVITY RESEARCHER MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI

Following points are from a summary of his article "The

Creative Personality: Ten paradoxical traits of the creative

personality":

Convergent (rational, left brain, sound judgment) and divergent (intuitive, right

brain, visionary) thinking…

Both extroverted and introverted, needing people and solitude equally.

Humble and proud, both painfully self-doubting and wildly self-confident.

May defy gender stereotypes, and are likely to have not only the strengths of their own

gender but those of the other as well.

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“Part of me suspects that I’m a loser, and the other part of me thinks I’m God Almighty.”

John Lennon

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Tilda Swinton once commented she is “very often referred to as ‘Sir’ in elevators and such...I think people just can’t

imagine I’d be a woman if I look like this.”

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“Gifted women tend to be highly androgynous… they

tend to combine qualities that we ascribe to both genders."

Kathleen Noble

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Photo: Sandra Tsing Loh is a Caltech graduate in physics and an accomplished writer, performer, radio

commentator, contributing editor, etc.

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