{"id":1273,"date":"2013-11-19T15:31:02","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T23:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/?p=1273"},"modified":"2013-11-19T15:31:02","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T23:31:02","slug":"contradictions-of-creativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/contradictions-of-creativity\/","title":{"rendered":"Contradictions of Creativity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi has listed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.matthewschuler.co\/why-creative-people-sometimes-make-no-sense\/\" target=\"_blank\">nine\u00a0contradictory traits<\/a> that are frequently present in the dozens of creative people he has studied. The seeming contradictions make creative people hard to understand. I identify with all of these except number 5.<\/p>\n<p>Some of my favorite seeming contradictions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>smart and naive<\/li>\n<li>playful and productive (responsibility and irresponsibility)<\/li>\n<li>attentive to real detail yet fluent in imagination and fantasy<\/li>\n<li>genuinely humble yet displaying a strong sense of pride<\/li>\n<li>rebellious and conservative<\/li>\n<li>very passionate about their work, but extremely objective about it<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi has listed nine\u00a0contradictory traits that are frequently present in the dozens of creative people he has studied. The seeming contradictions make creative people hard to understand. I identify with all of these except number 5. Some of my favorite seeming contradictions: smart and naive playful and productive (responsibility and irresponsibility) attentive to real &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/contradictions-of-creativity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Contradictions of Creativity&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1273"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1277,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273\/revisions\/1277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}