What does creativity look like?

I've been enjoying Scott Barry Kaufman's Psychology Podcast of late as well as his blogging on creativity (his research area). This post had perhaps one of the most interesting lists of character attributes of creative people that I've seen, revealing the complexity and contradictions involved. Here are the eight attributes listed:

  1. Mindful Daydreamers
  2. Imaginatively Gritty
  3. Passionately Introverted
  4. Openly Sensitive
  5. Playfully Serious
  6. Logically Intuitive
  7. Vulnerably Resilient
  8. Rebellious Experts

I'd encourage you to read the post for details. Overall the list made me think back to that famous quote from Aristotle:

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

To be creative seems to require often considering an idea and evaluating how well it meshes with others. This seems to me to be both part of a case for the liberal arts as well as a time to mourn the rush to judgment of ideas that seems to have become more common in recent times in the academic realm. At least with The Atlantic's September cover story The Coddling of the American Mind there seems to be pushback against this.