Following is an excerpt from the book - Five Minds of the Future - by Howard Gardner. This passage describes a creative individual is as per Gardner -
The creator stands out in terms of temperament, personality, and stance. She is perennially dissatisfied with the current work, current standards, current questions, current answers. She strikes out in unfamiliar directions and enjoys - or at least accepts - being different from the pack. When an anomaly arises (an unfamiliar musical chord, an unexpected experimental result, a spike or dip in the sale of goods in unfamiliar territory), she does not shrink from that unexpected wrinkle: indeed she wants to understand it and to determine whether it constitute a trivial error, an unrepeatable fluke, or an important but hitherto unknown truth. She is touch skinned and robust. There is a reason why so many famous creators hated or dropped out from school - they did not like marching to someone else's tune (and, in turn, the authorities disliked their idiosyncratic marching patterns).
All of us fail, and - because they are bold and ambitious - creators fail the most frequently and, often, the most dramatically. Only a person who is willing to pick herself up, and "try and try again" is likely to forge creative achievements. And even when an achievement has been endorsed by the "Field", the prototypical creator rarely rests on her laurels; instead, she proceeds along a new, untested path, fully ready to risk failure time and again in return for the opportunity to make another, different mark.
Creative activity harbors more than its share of heartaches; but "FLOW" that it accompanies a fresh insight, a breakthrough work, or a genuine invention can be addictive...
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