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Creative people do actually see the world differently. Here's why
Opening our minds
Personalities are not fixed, and people with uncreative personalities can broaden the limited views.
Openness also increases for students who choose to study overseas. But openness has been linked to aspects of mental illness, such as a tendency to hallucinate.
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The concept of creativity
The central concept of creativity is that some people are open to examine things from all angles and visualize more possibilities.
The part of our personality that seems to drive our creativity is called openness to experience. Openness best predicts performance on varying thinking tasks, on real-world creative achievements, as well as engagement in daily creative pursuits.
Creative vision
Research found that open people don't just bring a different perspective; they really see things differently.
The research findings suggest that open people's creative tendencies are ingrained in their basic visual perception. Open people may have inherently different experiences to other people.
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Open-minded people are more creative
A recent study has shown that open-minded individuals tend to be more creative and willing to have new experiences.
The result led to the idea that this kind of people have the t...
Open-minded people are more focused
A recent study has come to the conclusion that open-minded persons possess the ability to focus on different things at the very same moment.
Even if there are distractions around them, these individuals still manage to concentrate and see everything that is going on in the room and, so, they are less prone to the so-called 'inattentional blindness'.
Our personality and perception of the world
Research has proven that individuals' personality plays an essential role in the way they perceive the world.
Therefore, it is very probable that our perception of the world changes at the same time with our personality.
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See and observe
It is important to both see and to observe. As Holmes tells Dr Watson: “You see, but you do not observe.”
Why mindfulness is important
- Mindfulness can lead to improvements in physiological well-being and emotional regulation.
- Mindfulness can even enhance our levels of wisdom, both in terms of dialectism (being cognizant of change and contradictions in the world) and intellectual humility (knowing your own limitations).
- Mindfulness can lead to improved problem solving, enhanced imagination, and better decision making.
Mindfulness and inattentional blindness
When we focus on one particular element in a situation or problem, our brains can cause all the other elements to ‘disappear', so that we will have no conscious experience of having ever been exposed to them.
Inattentional blindness illustrates the limitations of our attentional abilities. We can’t ever multitask the way we think we can. Something will get lost.