What drives photographers and creatives
Posted by Tim Gruber | Filed under creative
Why do we do what we do as photographers and creatives?
Psychology Today has a nice article on what they call The Creative Personality and the ten paradoxical traits of the creative personality.
Perhaps the most important quality, the one that is most consistently present in all creative individuals, is the ability to enjoy the process of creation for its own sake. Without this trait, poets would give up striving for perfection and would write commercial jingles, economists would work for banks where they would earn at least twice as much as they do at universities, and physicists would stop doing basic research and join industrial laboratories where the conditions are better and the expectations more predictable.
I guess this is why we’re not all shooting events and weddings full-time.
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Tags: creative, mind, psychology
August 22nd, 2008 at 9:08 am
Wonderful article, it was kinda scary to see how much of myself and friends I could see in all those traits, some of which I had not associated directly with creativity.
Post Project Crash anyone?
August 22nd, 2008 at 9:17 am
You make a good point Suzanne. I see a lot of my friends with a lot of those same qualities. I guess that’s why they’re my friends.