There is a lot of hype in the area of creativity. Therefore, I have had fantastic time reading Peter Drucker's classic "Innovation and Enterpreneurship".
Drucker defines: Entrepreneurship is systematic search for innovative opportunities. Think, what a great definition for entrepreneurship! He further sees that "Innovation must be part and parcel of the ordinatry, the norm, if not the routine". Finally he points out: "Entrepreneurship is not 'natural'; it is not 'creative'. It is work."
Wait a second: When Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi asked the late Peter Drucker to be one of the selected creative persons for interviews in his book, Drucker refused. He wrote a nice letter to professor Csikszentmihalyi and described how he believes in p-r-o-d-u-c-t-i-v-i-t-y instead of creativity ;-)
Well,.... who is right? What kind of personality traits do creative people possess? Certainly, Drucker has a point, a creative person need to be systematic in opportunity finding and be hard-working. Csikszentmihalyi found that certain complexity is mutual to creative people. He refers to Jung who saw that every one of our strong points has a repressed shadow side that most of refure to acknowledge. Creative people are able use these 'shadow sides' (like orderly people can be spontaneous) as the occasion requires. I welcome you to take a look at those 10 pair of antithetical traits in Csikszentmihalyi's book. Believe or not, many of them are related to productivity :-)
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