文档介绍：The Creative Personality
Introduction:
MIHALYI CSIKSZENTMIHALYI a Hungarian-born polymath and the Davidson Professor of Management at the Claremont Graduate University, in Claremont, California has been thinking about the meaning of happiness since a child in wartime Europe.
His research and theories in the psychology of optimal experience have revolutionized psychology, and have been adopted in practice by national leaders such as Bill Clinton and Tony Blair as well as top members of the global executive elite who run the world's major corporations. Csikzentmihalyi is the author of several popular books about his theories, the bestselling Flow: The Psychology Of Optimal Experience; The Evolving Self: A Psychology For The Third Millennium; Creativity; and Finding Wall Street Journal has llisted Flow among the six books "every well-stocked business library should have."
P1
The personalities of creative
people——
complexity
(P2-15): Eight traits about creative people
(P3)
concentrate for long hours
fresh 、 enthusiastic quiet and at rest
energy control
Vocabulary:
focus n. 焦点,中心
focus on 注视; 集中关注
in focus 焦距对准的;清晰的
focus…on 注视、集中、关注
Inherit v. ①继承某物
eg. He’s inherited a fortune from his uncle.
②经遗传而得到
inherited her mother’s beauty and her father’s weak character
(P4-6)
smart IQ convergent (slving
dialectic well-defined、 onecorrect)
naive divergent (generate idea、
flexibility、originality)

use well of it
Switch from …to…从…转变到…
(P7)
the creative people
imagination
reality
Beyondreality and create a new reality
(P8)
extroverted
introverted
both
the creative people
(P9)
focused on future project and
current challenges
Humble
proud
and
respect for own area、
the previous contributions
(P10)
rebellious and conservative
Lead to novelty
unchanged