Creative individual

The literature on creativity includes analytical description of the components of creative experience, the personal characteristics of creative individuals, and the distinguishing features of creative solutions. From the participants reports, it was possible to extract eleven strategies of enhanced functioning during the session. The relationship of these strategies to enhanced functioning should be self-explanatory. Those readers interested in the relationship of these aspects to current research and theory on creativity can refer to the detailed technical discussion in Harman, McKim et al. (1966). 

A similar comment holds with regard to selection of subjects. Clinical studies already referred to indicate that those subjects who are more stable and productive beforehand tend to "benefit considerably from the psychedelic experience along the lines of self-actualization, richer creative experience, and enhancement of special abilities and aptitudes" (Savage et al., 1966). Subjects for this pilot study were deliberately selected to be persons with known reputations as creative individuals. In general, we would expect the outcomes of this kind of research to be more fruitful with gifted rather than "merely normal" subjects. 

It would be a very poor R D organisation that was not both creative and innovative. That said, creativity and innovation are easily stifled or destroyed even in formerly effective groups. Like tender plants they only flourish in a suitable environment and are in need of constant nourishment, as is discussed in Section B. There are many actions that a Manager can take to help nurture the process of creativity and innovation and create the right climate in which chemists and other scientists can operate. To assist in this process the Manager needs to understand the characteristics of creative individuals and also the various pathways from creativity to innovative products or processes. A description of these and the techniques and aids involved forms the body of the first part of this Section. 

Whilst the external climate may be hostile, the internal one within the R D group must always be supportive for the creative individual. 

Some of the most significant inventions, which seem to have happened by chance or serendipity, on closer examination often prove to have been the results of many years of endeavour and the accumulation of large amounts of data. In other words without the researcher having a goal and a chance to experiment, little would have happened. Why some people can work for years, accumulate vast amounts of knowledge, and still not be creative is another matter. Even the creative individual will under use this talent if the climate and stimulus for it to flourish are wrong for that particular person. Never underestimate the importance of the individual in the process of creation and innovation. 

Culture. If the company s culture is one that has historically valued and rewarded the creative individual, this will clearly be beneficial. 

Creative individuals often dream up certain solutions, products offantasy that question conventional wisdom. However, dreaming must not be the sole activity and should not impede the ability to make specific decisions when required. Optimism, is also a notable characteristic of the creative scientist, believing that there might be a solution , where the pessimist would rather say, there might not be a solution . 

These creative individuals had set up a scheme to purge through the top of the air dryer and out of a partially opened ball valve on the lower piping. They, no doubt, failed to realize that the dryers were not individually equipped with safety relief valves. The overpressure protection was on the compressors. A new operator to the area did not open the exit valve sufficiently during the cool-down step. 

David takes us through the spectacular growth of polymer chemistry over the past seven decades. These accomplishments were carried out by creative individuals who rose to the challenge and opportunity. This book will, I hope, reach younger scientists and help them to realize that they, too, can contribute. 

A final point about the creative process it does not seem to have too much to do with conventional LQ., as measured by existing tests. Frank Barron, while a Research Psychologist at the University of California Institute of Personality Assessment, compared more than 5,000 productive and creative individuals with others in their field who had similar I.Q. but limited productivity ... 

In a second area of experimentation, Leary and his associates gave the "mushroom pills to about 400 graduate students, psychologists, religious figures, mathematicians, chemists, writers, artists, musicians and other creative individuals to study their reactions. Extensive records were kept but to date only a few of these accounts have been published. 

In 2.2.7 I argued that there was a tension between the values of creativity and community, in that a society of highly creative individuals... 

Unfortunately, modernization hasn t filtered into Alabama s stubborn Southern cuisine. Vegetarianism is pretty much unheard of. As one local put it, vegetarians are considered strange and not normal. Despite the lack of acceptance, creative individuals will find plenty to graze on. Outdoor farms and markets are plentiful throughout the state, and Alabama is close enough to Florida to get a good crop of citrus every year. 

It is clear that to sustain the demands of a growing population amid the increased regulation by governmental organizations and activism by environmental groups, we must continue to innovate. The rich expertise and talent of creative individuals in our R D organizations are certainly up to this challenge. 

However, by no means did this destroy either popular literature or the rather more serious phenomena. In the space between the two tendencies that we have discussed, and also in the framework of the still-existing traditions of realism and naturalism, there were quite a few creative individuals (who... 

Some researchers have reported that creative individuals question accepted norms and assumptions and are alert to gaps in knowledge in their domain. They commonly have the ability to recognize good problems in their field and to apply themselves to solving these problems while ignoring others. 

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