The Components and Psychological Study of Creativity

1. “Mini-c”: involves personally meaningful ideas and insights that are known only to the self.
2. “Little-c”: Involves mostly everyday thinking and problem-solving. This type of creativity helps people solve everyday problems.
3. “Pro-C”: takes place among professionals who are skilled and creative in their respective fields. These individuals are creative in their vocation or profession.
4. “Big-C”: involves creating works and ideas that are considered great in a particular field. often leads to world-changing creations such as medical innovations, technological advances ect.

Some of the key traits include:

• Energy: Creative people tend to possess a great deal of both physical and mental energy. However, they also tend to spend a great deal of time quietly thinking and reflecting.
• Intelligence: Psychologists have long believed that intelligence plays a critical role in creativity. Researchers found that while high IQ was necessary for great creativity, not all people with high IQs are creative. Creative people must be smart, capable of looking at things in fresh, even naïve, ways.
• Discipline: Creative people do not just sit around waiting for inspiration to strike.

Studying creativity can be a tricky process. Not only is creativity a complex topic in and of itself, but there is also no clear consensus on how exactly to define creativity. 

Many of the most common definitions suggest that creativity is the tendency to solve problems or create new things in novel ways.