Mihaly menyatakan ada 10 sikap paradok yang dimiliki oleh orang-orang Kreatif. Tolong analisis dan berikan komentar pribadi Anda terhadap 10 sikap paradok tersebut.
Berikut ini adalah 10 sikap paradok yang dinyatakan oleh Mihaly:
1. Creative people have a great deal of physical energy, but they’re also often quiet and at rest.
2. Creative people tend to be smart yet naive at the same time.
3. Creative people combine playfulness and discipline, or responsibility and irresponsibility.
4. Creative people alternate between imagination and fantasy, and a rooted sense of reality.
5. Creative people trend to be both extroverted and introverted.
6. Creative people are humble and proud at the same time.
7. Creative people, to an extent, escape rigid gender role stereotyping.
8. Creative people are both rebellious and conservative.
9. Most creative people are very passionate about their work, yet they can be extremely objective about it as well.
10. Creative people’s openness and sensitivity often exposes them to suffering and pain, yet also to a great deal of enjoyment.
From Creativity: The Work and Lives of 91 Eminent People, by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, published by HarperCollins, 1996.
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Agus Nggermanto
1.this physical energy is born from their urge to exploit their ideas.and to be able to create such idea, solitary is the best state.
2. Smart yet naive at the same time. Most creative people think uniquely and tend to solve something with an unordinary way. There are a lot of creative people who got negative response when they are telling about their ideas. People tend to make fun of them because creative ideas are usually something that are new and unimaginable without prove.
3. i don’t think its necessary for ‘creative people’ to be discipline and responsible. they have their own definition of ‘discipline’. what’s right and wrong. and they can dance and sing as they like at their discipline zone. whether it disturb other people or authorities interest, they won’t care, i think.
4. Imagination and fantasy and rooted sense of reality. Being creative requires imagination and dreaming. With the power of imagination, we can create things that we can not create in reality. However, being imaginative does not mean that we are 100% creative. In order to be the ultimate creative person, we must think of how to make our imagination real. That is why creative people have to be both imaginative and a high sense of reality.
5. extroverted in the way they gave out, introverted in the way they gave in.
6. Creative people are humble and proud at the same time.
Humble and proud at the same time. Creative people often achieve something that is new and useful to others. In my opinion, the word “proud” here means that creative people is happy when their invention can be used by other people. Humble is a reminder that creativity does not stops just yet. It allows creative people to keep on exploring at discover new things. So being humble and proud must be balanced.
7.Creative people know no boundaries of gender role. For them, as long as the people they are working/sharing ideas with is coming along, it’s fine.
8.Most of us often stereotypes creative people (musicians, artist, poet, etc) as rebellious. But that’s because we only look through one point of view. Creative people had a value of its own; therefore they always had their own ‘conservative’ side
9.If you’re not objective about your work, how are you going to make people believe/like your work? Without being objective, it will be even harder for creative people to realize their work.
10.Suffering and pain yet great deal of enjoyment. When creative people try to find a unique way to solve a problem, they often focused on it and forget about other things. Sometime, they even forget to eat for days. When they are trying to find an inspiration, they look like they are having a very hard time and often looked like a “zombie”. However, thinking is one of the key in being a creative person. Just by doing that makes creative people think that they are a living person.
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