According to this article, a creative person experiences heightened sensitivity to stimuli and exhibits paradoxical behavior. Then he/she chooses a medium for e

According to this article, a creative person experiences heightened sensitivity to stimuli and exhibits paradoxical behavior. Then he/she chooses a medium for expression to channel the chaotic sensory and emotional experiences into one that is controlled more so by themselves, else how can we deem someone as creative until they create. Seems like we need to understand creativity a bit more, because as many users are commenting, some descriptions and questions from this article are vague and highly applicable the basic human experience (we're all creative! :)) _ I looked for some resources by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (MC) who was referenced for studying creativity. Here is what appears to be chapters 2 and 5 of his book Creativity (hosted by CS7601: Computational Creativity, host by Georgia Tech): 1. Ch. 2. - "Where Is Creativity?": http://www.cc.gatech.edu/classes/AY2013/cs7601_spring/papers/csikszentmihalyi-whereiscreativity.pdf http://www.cc.gatech.edu/classes/AY2013/cs7601_spring/papers... 2. Ch. 5 - "The Flow of Creativity": http://www.cc.gatech.edu/classes/AY2013/cs7601_spring/papers/csikszentmihalyi-flowofcreativity.pdf http://www.cc.gatech.edu/classes/AY2013/cs7601_spring/papers... 3. Class Website: http://www.cc.gatech.edu/classes/AY2013/cs7601_spring/ http://www.cc.gatech.edu/classes/AY2013/cs7601_spring/ _ Csikszentmihalyi also wrote Flow, which is about the psychology of optimal experience. 1. TED talk by MC: https://www.ted.com/talks/mihaly_csikszentmihalyi_on_flow?language=en https://www.ted.com/talks/mihaly_csikszentmihalyi_on_flow?la... 2. Flow - coined by MC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)