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The 5 Attitudes That Differentiate Highly Creative People

How behavioral science explains the method of professional creatives

Jean-marc Buchert
6 min readSep 23, 2020
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The various studies around the creative process have shown that everyone has creative potential.

Some psychologists have even noticed that changing people’s attitudes is enough to make them build new and unexpected associations.

Yet, among these behavioral studies, highly creative people stand out, showing thinking and making habits that enable strong practical imagination.

According to Keith Sawyer in Zig Zag, what differentiates these creative professionals is to know how to incorporate all stages of the creative process into their lifestyle habits.

Whether in the phases of observation, reflection, ideation, creation, or correction, they show singular behaviors that increase their productivity and inspiration.

Here are 5 psychological studies that show how you can significantly increase the power of your imagination through these attitudes.

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