There are eight basic types of mind, and each child is given them from birth in different proportions. All these kinds of intelligence are like paints with which we can paint the pattern of our life. The varieties of mind are: academic, emotional, physical, creative, artistic, practical, intuitive and talented. These kinds of minds are given to each child in varying degrees from birth, and any kind can be developed with the help of appropriate kinds of training.

academic mind

Children with a strong academic mind do well in school. They know how to sit, listen and learn. They are able to assimilate, understand and repeat the knowledge taught to them well, easily remember the information provided to them. This does not necessarily mean that they will be able to constructively apply their knowledge in life.
Adults know that most of the knowledge gained in school is eventually forgotten - but the school teaches us to think, analyze, understand and find sources. The academic mind develops in the process of reading, writing and understanding the information provided in lectures. Parents should give children with this kind of mind opportunities for academic education.

emotional mind

Children with strong emotional minds are able to create and maintain healthy relationships with others and with themselves. They are more aware of what others think and feel; It is easy for them to understand someone else's point of view. This capacity for compassion and networking benefits a person not only in his personal life, but also at work. To be successful at work, you need to have a strong emotional mind. This kind of intelligence also determines the ability to control and express one's feelings and desires. A growing number of schools are including courses on understanding feelings, developing empathy and improving interpersonal communication in their programs. Parents should provide these children with opportunities for social interaction and improve themselves in the art of communication.

physical mind

Children with a developed physical mind achieve success in sports and easily maintain strength, health and vigor in their bodies. They instinctively feel the body's need for exercise and healthy food. For the development of innate inclinations, these children require physical training. Their abilities are greatly enhanced if they are given the opportunity to compete with other children. A healthy spirit of competition awakens the best qualities in them. These children require positive recognition in order to develop self-esteem. Not only do they feel good, but they also know how to look good. The scope of the physical mind is not limited to sports and the health of the body. These children need to know more about their own body and what makes it strong and alert. Blooming appearance and cheerfulness help them to achieve success in life.

creative mind

Children with a creative mind have a very developed imagination. To play such a child, a few cubes or a doll without a face are enough. They often make friends with imaginary beings. Such children should not be overloaded with impressions. If you provide them with too many ready-made images, their imagination does not develop. It is good to read fairy tales to them, because in doing so they have to use their imagination to imagine scenes and characters.
If such a child watches too much TV, which offers ready-made visual images, his ability to imagine is blunted. To develop any kind of intelligence, you need to use it - this is how a creative mind develops when you stimulate the imagination of children and encourage them to think differently from others. Often such people succeed where others fail, because they are able to see any problem from an unexpected angle.
Many successful entrepreneurs did not receive formal education and did not excel in school. The secret to their success is creativity. It was not uncommon for someone to encourage them to think outside the box as children, and as a result, they developed the strength to carve out their own niche in life. These people are usually original and succeed in life by going their own way. They are often left-handed. Parents should encourage such children to think outside the box and solve problems outside the box.

Artistic mind

Children with an artistic mind have an interest in singing, drawing, modeling, writing, drama, and other arts. They need stimulation from people who have achieved mastery in certain arts. Role models are necessary for all children, but this one in particular, otherwise it is difficult for them to develop their artistic mind. These children are particularly sensitive and often do not receive the emotional support they need.
Parents should encourage such children to pursue their dreams and develop their artistic talents. To develop abilities, children need appropriate role models, the opportunity to develop and exercise their minds, and the encouragement and evaluation of their parents.

practical mind

For children with a practical mind, theoretical lectures often inspire boredom. They need information that they can use. This kind of intelligence is now flourishing in the West. Now there is so much information available that many are ready to perceive only what is necessary. These children focus on what is good for them and often criticize the school curriculum for offering too much information that will never be useful in life.
In order to interest children, many schools adjust their programs, coordinating them with the needs of the time. Practical minds require basic skills that are essential for everyday life, interpersonal relationships and job success. They have no incentive to absorb information if it has no functional value.
A practical mind gives a person the opportunity to gain stability and confidence in life. Such a person is not attracted by lofty ideas that are not directly related to modern reality. He strives to put into practice what will bring him immediate benefit. Such children should be given the opportunity to apply their knowledge in practice; they learn in the course of activity and evaluation of its results. For the development of this kind of mind, it is necessary to give the child structured activities in conditions of freedom and independence.

intuitive mind

Children with strong intuition simply know. They don't need to be taught, they don't need to be explained. Information just comes to them. This may be information about the subject of study or the individual knowledge of another person. Such children are inclined to spiritual activity. Once they read a few sentences from a book, they intuitively know most of the content. Not only do they intuitively recognize the content, they then benefit from this knowledge.
For example, if you read a book on the art of communication, in the future the information you learned will serve as the basis for the correct response to a particular situation. You better understand what to do. This is the benefit of reading this book. Intuitive children do not need to delve into the details of the subject to benefit from the teacher's knowledge.
Children with intuitive minds are often not taken seriously. Most parents and schools do not purposefully develop this kind of intelligence. Parents of a child with a strong intuitive mind should not worry too much about his academic performance, but should appreciate the sixth sense that helps the child know what he needs. This kind of intelligence is primarily stimulated through face-to-face interactions rather than through TV programs, computer work, or reading.

Talented mind

Talented children tend to develop one type of intelligence exceptionally strongly, while the rest remain weak. All children are born with a strong mind, but different kinds of it develop to varying degrees. In children with a talented mind, one kind is very strong, but the rest are weak.
In order to live happily and fully, talented children need special support and guidance so that they can use their special abilities, otherwise they will be bored and uninteresting in life. In addition, these children need special support to develop skills and minds in which they are weak.
People with brilliant abilities in one area often suffer in life, because the rest of their minds are not developed. A great scientist or a brilliant entrepreneur is sometimes simply not able to say "I love you" to his beloved. Many people who are generously endowed with an emotional mind are in poor health. These loving people are very caring about others, but neglect their own body, not giving it regular physical activity. From century to century, the life of great artists is full of suffering, because they lack the practicality necessary in order to raise money and provide for their daily needs. There are no number of examples when great talents suffered severely in life.
Some people are gifted with the strongest physical mind. They always look great. And these people are so accustomed to receiving love and support for their appearance that they are afraid to show their inner qualities so as not to lose the attention and admiration of others. Therefore, "beautiful people" are often very superficial. Their development is inhibited because they do not want to risk the love of others, which they receive by demonstrating their external qualities.

The same principle is true for all other varieties of the mind. For example, people with a strong academic mind sometimes have a poor command of the art of communication. They like to excel in one area. They receive the love and attention of others due to their outstanding success in one area or another. Fear of failure can keep a child from trying to learn new skills. Trying to work on themselves and develop a different, weaker kind of mind is too big a risk for them. The reasoning here is simple. If I excel in one area or another, I receive love and support. If I do not excel others, I will lose love and support. In order to refute these arguments, such children need encouragement to develop other kinds of minds in which they are not so gifted. In the process of learning, they will see for themselves that in order to receive love, there is no need to surpass others. As a result, they will be able to live more balanced, full-blooded and successful lives.

Now we move on to the creative mind. What are the characteristics of this creative mind? Obviously, the characteristics of the creative mind are the opposite of those of the reactive mind. The creative mind doesn't just react. The creative mind, so to speak, operates on its own. The motivating force, movement, inspiration, so to speak, of the creative mind comes from the depths of the mind itself. Not just from external stimuli. External things can, so to speak, give rise to, become a hint or a suggestion, and the mind, the creative mind, can accept them, but it is not a reaction. It is rather, one might say, a kind of answer.

Let's take an example, a concrete example. Let us assume that misfortune has befallen us. We have lost something or lost something. Something happened. Perhaps something tragic that we don't like - so what usually happens? Usually, of course, we grumble, we complain, we complain, so to speak: "Why did this have to happen to me, why did this have to happen to me?" This is the reactive mind. This is how we react if we do not think, if we are not aware. But suppose we take this misfortune, this deprivation or this loss as a kind of challenge, as a kind of opportunity for discovering within ourselves what is not conditioned by the object, then this is the creative mind in action. The reactive mind is often negative and pessimistic, while the creative mind is positive and optimistic. Optimistic not in an artificial sense. Optimistic not in the sense that we see everything in a rosy light, but in the sense that creativity continues, despite even rather unpleasant external conditions and incentives. Now, since it doesn't really depend on an external object, because it doesn't really depend on it, doesn't react based on it, the creative mind is the unconditioned mind. Its existence, functioning does not depend on any external objects. He may be using occasions from the outside world, but he is not really conditioned by them.

So because he is not conditioned, he is independent, he is, so to speak, free. It is spontaneous, and at its highest level, as this inner freedom and spontaneity develops more and more in it, it becomes, so to speak, the Unconditional, Unconditional Mind with a capital "B", so to speak, with a capital "U". ", and this coincides, this is identical with the Absolute Mind itself. Because it is unconditioned or unconditioned, it is real and truly free. And, being creative, being free, he is also original in the sense that he creates something new from his own depths, their inner treasures. And it is characterized, one might say, by unceasing productivity. He creates all the time, gives birth, becomes the source, the cause of the emergence of new and new things.

This creativity is not necessarily just artistic, or literary, or even spiritual. It can also extend, one might say, to personal relationships, because when two people meet or communicate, something more is born, something more extensive than themselves.

In summary, the creative mind is, among other things, the conscious mind, the mind that is awake, the awakened mind, the mind that is actually awareness itself. And because he is aware, he is actually truly alive. The reactive mind is a dead mind. It is like a machine, and the creative mind, because it is non-reactive, because it is spontaneous, because it is free and unconditioned, is truly alive, it is a living mind.

In Buddhism we have two very important symbols. We recently had a rather busy schedule of lectures on Symbolism at Kingsway Hall. We have touched on one or two of the symbols that I am going to mention now, but in Buddhism we have two very important symbols illustrating these two kinds of mind - the reactive mind and the creative mind, the reactive functioning of the mind and the creative functioning of the mind. Some of you are already quite familiar with these symbols, and I am sure that in at least some people these symbols have seeped deep into the unconscious, and these symbols are what we call the Wheel of Life and the Path. Or, if you like, more geometrically, so to speak, the Circle symbol and the Spiral symbol. In connection with our, I think, the second lecture at Kingsway Hall, a diagram has been created which, among other things, illustrates these two symbols, and if anyone is interested or wants to have a copy of this diagram, which also partially illustrates this lecture, I I think there are still a few copies in Sakura.

These are the two great symbols of Buddhism: the Wheel of Life and the Path, the circle and the spiral. Some of you, I know, have seen the Wheel of Life. Some of you - those who attended the second week of the retreat - spent a very pleasant hour actually copying the Wheel of Life, which I sketched very roughly on the board. But all of you know, I think, or most of you know, that the Wheel of Life has a very important place, an outstanding, even a central place in the religious art of Tibet. The Wheel of Life is divided into four concentric circles. In the center is a hub with three animals. These three animals symbolize different aspects of the reactive mind. That's what they are, in essence. There is a rooster, symbolizing longing, a snake, symbolizing anger, and a pig, symbolizing ignorance or defilement. And these are the three main aspects of the reactive mind. Ignorance, the pig, symbolizes the darkness and blindness of the reactive mind, while craving and hatred symbolize its two main blind and ignorant functions.

Then, secondly, in the second circle, which is divided into two parts, there are black and white halves. In the dark half, people are carried away down. In the white half they are understood to the highest states of existence. But both parts are inside the wheel, inside the circle of life, which means that conventional morality and conventional religion, purely external morality or religiosity are still part of the reactive mind. They are not truly religious or spiritual - they are inside the wheel. They are more refined products of the mind, but still a reactive mind.

Then, in the third round, we move on to the division into five or six realms of conditioned existence. That is, to the realm or realms of gods, asuras who fight gods, human beings, animals, hungry ghosts, and beings in a state of suffering. Traditionally these five or six realms are interpreted or understood cosmologically as different planes of existence located somewhere in this universe, but we can also interpret them as different aspects of human existence itself: the world of the gods symbolizes states of happiness or even, one might say, abundance, the world of the titans symbolizes the state of enmity and even war with other forms of life. Then the human condition, ordinary human life - a little pleasure, a little pain. Then come the hungry ghosts, people who are deprived of anything, undernourished, who do not have enough food and even water, as happens to many people even today in the so-called undeveloped countries. And then there are beings who really experience torment and suffering, which happens very often anyway, even in our twentieth century, with people in different places, different parts of the world, whether it be a concentration camp, a torture chamber, or even a prison. In some countries of the world, extremely terrible things are still happening, and we can rightly say that hells can be found on the surface of our Earth.

Thus states of existence are thus understood, so to speak, within the framework of human life, human existence, and they are depicted, as I have already said, in this third round of the Wheel of Life. But, as I said, traditionally Buddhists understand all this in terms of cosmology.

And finally, the fourth and last circle is divided into twelve nidanas or twelve links, which explain the whole process of karma and rebirth, which, by the way, I made references to in the course of this discussion. These twelve nidanas or links are links in the chain of the reactive mind, and they are, in short, just to give you names, because this basis we find everywhere, these are: first of all, avidya or ignorance, spiritual blindness or ignorance. Under its influence, samskaras arise, various functions of the body, speech and mind that grow out of this ignorance. Then, thirdly, comes the vijnana, the flash of consciousness that occurs in the new life in the mother's womb. Fourthly, the nama-rupa, the psycho-physical organism which, so to speak, clusters around this initial flash of consciousness. Fifthly, salayatana, the six sense organs with which the psychophysical organism is equipped, that is, the five sense organs and the mind. Sixthly, sparsha or contact, which occurs when the six sense organs come into contact with the corresponding sense objects.

Seventh, vedana, the feelings or sensations that come next are pleasurable, painful, and neutral. Eighth, trishna, craving or craving, which arises under the influence of pleasant sensations. Ninth, upadana, grasping, the tendency to hold on to pleasant sensations for as long as possible and repeat them. Then bhava, the process of the conditioned mind, the mind becoming rigid and, so to speak, reactive. Eleventh, birth (jati), as a result of all this in a new life, a new existence. And then, twelfthly, jara-marana, aging and new death.

These twelve links, which I have described very briefly - many much more detailed explanations can be found - are divided into three lives: the first two belong to the previous life, the middle eight belong to this life, and the last two belong to the next life. Thus, the twelve links are distributed over three lives and explain the process of karma and rebirth, how we generally appear in this world, within these twelve links. Hence, they depict in very specific, simple terms the whole process of the reactive mind: how it simply reacts when faced with pleasant stimuli and continues to evolve in conditioning. At the same time, although all these twelve links are distributed over three lives, it is also said that they are all present in the same life. But whether they are distributed over three lives or contained in one, this sequence shows exactly how the reactive mind works. This is, so to speak, the mechanism of the whole process, and it is for this reason, because of the process reflected in these twelve nidanas, that the mind goes round and round like in a wheel. That is why we speak of the Wheel of Life, and the wheel, as you know, is a machine, the simplest of all machines. Therefore, the fact that the reactive mind is represented in the concept of a wheel, the Wheel of Life, very aptly illustrates that its nature is like a machine.

So this is the first great symbol of Buddhism, the symbol of the Wheel of Life with its hub and three animals, the white and black paths, the five or six realms of conditioned existence and the twelve links that explain the process of karma and rebirth in general, the process of the conditioned mind. It reflects the mechanism, the machine, so to speak, of this conditioned reactive mind that we use most of the time, if not all of the time, and illustrates how we are bound by it, imprisoned by it, and just going round and round like a squirrel in a wheel inside its cage.

Ecology of life. People: Neuroscience has proven that creative minds have different brains than other types of people.

Neuroscience has proven that creative minds have different brains than other types of people.

Science is not yet able to explain exactly how all of these processes occur, but creativity is thought to involve several cognitive processes. It is difficult to say that a certain behavior is associated with creativity.

However, there are some different traits, behaviors, and social influences that creativity influences.

Here are fourteen traits characteristic of creative natures

1. They are considerate

Creative people carefully observe everything around. They also love to watch people. Many creative people often carry a laptop, notepad, or camera with them to capture what they see. In many well-known works, it is the details that fascinate us the most.

For example, we see many nuances of human behavior in Jane Austen's novels. These small but captivating details breathe life into her works.

2. They are dreamy

When we were kids, most of us were told to stop dreaming. However, psychologists now say that dreaming and wasting time are not the same.

Dreaming is actually a complex brain process during which connections are made, understanding occurs, and new ideas are born. When we dream, we can look at life differently, imagining what it would be like to be someone else or to live in a world arranged differently. It can improve creative thought processes and lead us to new ideas.

3. They challenge the status quo

Creative individuals are often reluctant to accept things as they are. They want to change the world and feel their own importance. They ask questions like "What if?" and "Why not?" This helps them rethink their options.

Take, for example, the World War I poet Wilfred Owen. He chose to challenge the notion that dying for a country is great, and portrayed the horrors of war.

4. They regularly join the creative flow.

Creative individuals, when they are involved in the work, slip into the "zone". Also known as "flow", this state is described in Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's book. The author explains how the state of flow is achieved when we are working on something that we enjoy, as well as in moments when the situation challenges us. In a state of flow, creative work is much better.

Creativity doesn't mean multitasking. Often you just need to be distracted to get into the flow.

5. They have trouble finishing a project.

One of the downsides of being creative is that getting things done can be a real challenge. The initial stages of a creative project feel exciting and new, but that excitement can fade with time, just like most romance novels!

They can easily abandon projects when they become more difficult and complex. Creative individuals may also be distracted by another brilliant idea.

6. They see structures and connections.

What sets creatives apart from others is the ability to make connections. Creativity is often about connecting things that others might see as completely unrelated.

By discovering structures and connections that others overlook, creative people can create something new from the overlooked and underestimated. They see opportunity where others don't and use that to create something original.

7. They feed their souls

We can't constantly create new things if we don't take the time to feed our souls. Julia Cameron described it as "good stuff". She says, "We have to be mindful enough to consciously add to our creative resources as we use them."

Each person has different requirements for this content. Often this refers to the time you need to spend alone. Regardless of how we spend our time and what we do for it, soul nourishment is essential to continued creative expression.

8. They are open

Openness is the key to creativity. Creative people are very curious and love new experiences.

Being open to new emotions, creative people are fascinated by new information, sensations and feelings. They constantly explore the outer world and their inner world and remain open to new possibilities all their lives.

9. They are real

In a society that values ​​outward signs of success more than a rich inner life, creative individuals may fail. However, they are moving in a different direction. The creative process is part of what makes them who they are.

As a result, creative individuals remain true to their vision of the world around them and follow their dreams, rather than striving for success and popularity.

10. They create in cycles

Creativity has its own natural rhythms that cannot be changed, just like the seasons. In the life of any creative person, rapid changes occur: periods of productivity are replaced by a desire to remain completely calm - and vice versa.

Creative projects begin with an incubation period, and only after a while they are ready to see the light. Creative people succumb to these cycles instead of being obsessed with consistent performance.

11. They don't believe in themselves.

Creative individuals suffer from the same doubts and self-confidence issues as everyone else. When an artist struggles to find their place in life and win over an audience, a lack of self-confidence can be felt more acutely. Even highly successful creatives often find it hard to recognize the magnificence of their own work.

12. They are cheerful

Fortunately, despite the fact that creative people often doubt themselves, they remain cheerful. They should be like this. In creative work, there are many projects that go against the rules and often fail. This is where cheerfulness is needed.

Creative individuals cannot afford to take failure personally. The best way to reconsider your point of view on this is to recognize that this is not a mistake, but a learning experience.

13. They follow their passions.

Creative people are rarely motivated by material rewards. They find motivation in intrinsic rewards such as personal satisfaction, courage, and passion.

Artists create because something inside them demands it, not out of a desire for fame or fortune or a desire to please someone. Understanding that such intrinsic motivation leads to success can boost overall creativity.

14. They see life as an opportunity for self-expression.

Creativity is part of our self-expression. Everything we do comes from our own need for self-expression. Thus, our whole life can become a creative project.

While some people may be more creative than others, I think that creativity is a quality we all have. If you look at your own life, you will see that it is full of creativity. When we prepare food, renovate a room, choose equipment, or plant a garden, we are creating. The things we choose say a lot about us and are part of how we build our own lives. published

To begin with, we will conduct a small test in order to be distributed among the camps.

Task: find the area of ​​a right triangle.
As a humanist to the marrow of my bones, of course, I don’t remember the correct formula - but I will persistently look for a way out. Without further ado, I’ll slyly estimate that two identical triangles will make a square divided by a diagonal. Finding the area of ​​a square is even within my power, just like dividing the resulting number by 2 (without a calculator) to get the area of ​​a triangle. Is it logical that it is half the size of a square? Well, sort of. P.S. If a square were drawn on the ground, I would go to count the steps ...
A techie, on the contrary, will most likely automatically give out a miracle formula that he remembered from school: 1/2 (AB). That's how we met.)

So, I'm talking about personal experience. Working in the environment of monster programmers and daemons-analysts, I discovered an interesting fact: if you don’t mention numbers, statistics, indicators and data in a conversation with them for two minutes, the techie interlocutor, having lost all interest in the subject of conversation, turns into an extremely amiable nodding head with clouded eyes. Fortunately - he didn’t turn around and didn’t leave - he stands, poor fellow, and “listens” to all this emotional babbling, saturated with epithets and literary turns. And in my thoughts I flew away long ago into the space of numbers, options, logical chains, dynamic bursts, rational mechanisms.
The following comparative description of the two types is based on the position that the fundamental difference between techies and humanists lies in the ways of perceiving and processing information.

So, let's go! Starring Zoya and Zakhar.

Zoya is the owner of humanitarian brains. The girl has strategic and creative thinking. Logical connections (yes, they are!) are focused on the goal, not the small details. Since the goal is an image of something that does not yet exist, Zoe's creative inclinations and intuition sometimes show real miracles, although they are based on imagination and emotions. They do a great job of recreating the line of communication between reality and purpose.
Zoya, like other humanitarians, prefers creative activity, she has a well-developed imagination, thinking is not limited by standards and boundaries.
In Zoin's professional activity, the mind is forced (and more inclined) to memorize different terms from the field of chemistry, linguistics, biology, so this process is more likely approximate than an exact character. The partial coincidence of different characteristics, as well as consonant names, activate Zoya's mind to remember further, expanding knowledge about the subject.
Professional affiliation : if it were Zoya’s will, she would exist at the expense of subtle matters ... But the capitalist system pushes the girl to go to work in politics, medicine, education, law, sometimes in the “free cash desk”.

Zakhar is a select techie. The lucky man is simply given the exact sciences, since he always has everything on the shelves. Has excellent memory and logical thinking. He happily takes on all sorts of problems and puzzles. Zakhar's main hobby is strategic planning. Zakhar, unlike Zoya, is inclined to analyze individual phenomena in actions (she sees the whole picture as a whole). The analyst analyzes the situation to the smallest detail and only then undertakes to evaluate. Worships accuracy, rationalism, validity and other fundamental and fundamental boring things :)). Zakhar optimizes all the information received and modifies it into a general algorithm or formula for subsequent use. The mind of techies forms the finest calibration of the gradation of the value of things in relation to other things. Therefore, for example, in life, Zakhar is reluctant to spend money, and buys only the most necessary things. Zoya, on the other hand, has a diametrically opposite situation - the ability to correctly evaluate things is less developed - she wants everything at once.
Professional affiliation: as mentioned earlier - mathematicians, programmers, analysts, sociologists.

As you can see, all the differences between the humanities and techies are fully justified by biological inclinations. But simply understanding this is not enough, as well as stating a given. It is also advisable to learn how to project your creative efforts in a profitable way or the technique of multiplying three-digit numbers in your mind. And of course, find a common language with aliens.

Creative people create problems. They are drug addicts. They're a little crazy and they usually dress in a very funny way... or at least most of us think it's funny.

Creative people are very different. Of course, all people are different, although many of us try to fit into certain boundaries.

For many creatives, the very phrase "fit in" is against the idea of ​​what a creative person should be like. Most creative people are not crazy. They are simply misunderstood.

Of course, some of them literally go crazy, but this is only a small part. The vast majority of creatives simply don't like to lie about who a person really is.

1. Creative people see the world differently than the rest

At the same time, creative people want to share their vision and interpretation with the rest of the world. For them, the world is full of many meanings, shades of meaning and complexity, and it is also filled with opportunities that the average person does not have.

Creative people know that the impossible is possible because they understand that nothing in the world is certain.

Seeing that the world is filled with endless possibilities, they want to leave their mark here. They want to add their touch to the most beautiful work of art - life itself.

When you see the world differently than others, you stand out. Many people do not like those who stand out. For some reason they are afraid of "white crows".

Others simply prefer inertia and constancy. They are afraid of what they do not know, they do not like the unknown and the misunderstandings associated with it.

2. They are often introverted and tend to be alone.

This is not to say that creative individuals do not like all the people around. They just spend more time alone because it allows them to focus on what interests them. They can think, dream, plan and create things.

Creative individuals must constantly be in the creative process. Otherwise, their creative "itch" will be simply unbearable. Yes, they can be sincerely devoted to their friends, but in the same way they rush about with their ideas and products of creativity - sometimes it even develops into an obsession.

Who will blame them, on the other hand? When you have a job, you have to do it, be productive and meet deadlines. There is always time for socialization.

The reason why creative people are often successful in competition is not because they are smarter than their competitors. The thing is that they have a higher level of work ethic.

Creative individuals are accustomed to perfectly navigate the project, accustomed to the fact that it literally absorbs them. It's hard to compete with this.

3. They don't judge their abilities by the standards that others do.

They may not always boast of success in school or at work (at work that most consider normal). It would be better for them to create than to study and work. On the other hand, who doesn't?

The difference is that creative people are literally obsessed with their creativity. Their passion cannot be hidden.

If you are a creative person, it is almost certain that you find it difficult to perform monotonous work. When you are a creator by nature, you live in joyful anticipation, constantly trying to discover and create something new, trying yourself in different areas.

Creative people go to school and then to work like everyone else, but only because they have to. They tend to accept imperfect jobs until they find something more interesting for themselves in terms of self-development.

4. They are more emotional

For them, life is louder and brighter than for most people. But it's not because creative people get more information about the world, it's just that they pay more attention to it.

Creative individuals may be introverted, but they spend just as much time “wandering in themselves” as they do in the outside world.

They pay a lot of attention to the little things and let those little details pay more attention to them than to the average (not so creative) person.

For them, the world is filled with meaning. For many of us, reality is a blur. For creative people, the world is everything.

Of course, sometimes such individuals get lost in their "journeys". In general, being a creative person means sometimes having problems with the surrounding reality.

5. They are dreamers

People do not understand dreamers, because they always dream of change. About a better world, a better reality, a better future. They can imagine the unimaginable and often believe they can make the impossible possible.

If you like everything to be in its place, you will be frightened by the mess that always accompanies a creative person. The life of a creator is defined by change. Especially the changes that he himself creates.

People have always been and always will be afraid of dreamers. We prefer to stop there and be "average". We do not like "white crows" and thinkers. We are a nation that is doing everything possible to form an established middle class.

It will be fun enough to fail this mission.