Here is a much less superficial article from Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, a psychologist who has extensively studied highly creative people: http://www.psychologyt

Here is a much less superficial article from Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, a psychologist who has extensively studied highly creative people: http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/199607/the-creative-personality http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/199607/the-creative-... If I had to express in one word what makes their personalities different from others, it's complexity. They show tendencies of thought and action that in most people are segregated. They contain contradictory extremes; instead of being an "individual," each of them is a "multitude."