I doodle a lot. Drawing is not my thing. Da Vinci. I'll pass. I would love it! I'm not all that into kids. I would be a better high school teacher. I sound great in the shower. I play an instrument.
I'm royalty in karaoke circles. I know a few kids' songs. I try not to overanalyze. I'm always lost in thought. It depends on the subject. I go with my gut. I can sleep anytime and anywhere. I battle insomnia sometimes. I'm too tired to fight sleep. If something is bothering me, I do. I'm somewhere in the middle. I'm super laid back. I'm a little uptight at work. I'm totally type A. I read a couple.
I read at least I read more magazines than books. I think I made it half way through one. I've sent a card. I have written many love notes. That's a great idea! I'm not wordy enough for that.
It was a long time ago. It was recently. It was last year. I can't remember. I think with my gut. I am all heart. I'm fairly balanced. I always use my head. Creative Types is the brainchild of Adobe Create; creative agency Anyways; a group of UK designers and developers; and me; a writer, creative consultant, and co-author of Wired to Create: Unravelling the Mysteries of the Creative Mind.
The first step was developing the methodology—that was my job. I conducted research and devised a simple but reliable test formula that could accurately measure key characteristics of the creative personality.
I made myself a guinea pig, taking as many personality tests as I could get my hands on. I also looked to less scientifically rigorous but enduring popular personality assessments, including the Enneagram and Jungian archetypes.
Discover your creative type. Click to take the test. I then distilled some common elements of these tests and mashed them up with my own knowledge of the creative personality, which is largely based on research I conducted during the two years I wrote the book Wired to Create: Unravelling the Mysteries of the Creative Mind co-authored with Penn psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman.
At a certain point, a clear picture began to emerge in my mind from this tangled web of research and information. There were countless different traits and characteristics to measure, but it all seemed to boil down into three core questions:.
These three questions mixed to create a surprisingly clear and vivid combination of personality types. That became the Creative Types test formula. These three dichotomies combined to create eight different personality types. An Introverted, Intellectual, Ideas person, for instance, would be classified as the Thinker; contemplative, inward-oriented, analytical and often lost in thought. An Extroverted, Emotional, Action type was the Adventurer: a passionate lover of life and curious explorer with a natural ability to inspire and uplift others.
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