Creative thinkers

Creative thinkers seem to possess the following characteristics in common:

• an acutely sensitive awareness of their environment;

• the ability to generate a large number of ideas in response to a given problem;

• the ability to focus their faculties in sustained concentration;

• in most cases the creative individual’s work place is likely to be a cheerfully haphazard conglomeration of complete disorder;

• the majority of truly creative persons are introverts;

• they tend to be much less concerned with what others think of them than most people are; also, they are often comparatively indifferent to clothing and appearance. Creative people do not seem to have a need to present themselves in a favorable light to others.
- OTTO H.THEIMER, A GENTLEMAN’S GUIDE TO MODERN PHYSICS