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How Creative Are You?

By Eugene Raudsepp (in the book “Cross-Train Your Brain" by Stephen D. Eiffert)

How creative are you? Do the following test, and it will help you determine whether you have the personality traits, values, motivations, interests and attitudes that make up creativity. Try to be as honest as possible and do not try to second-guess how a creative person might react.

For each statement, click the appropriate button that best matches you.

1. I always work with a great deal of confidence and certainty that I always follow the correct sequences for solving a specific problem.
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2. It’ll be a waste of time for me to ask questions if I had no hope for finding answers.
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3. I concentrate more on whatever that interested me than do most people.
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4. I believe that solving problems by a logical step-by-step method is the best and the most effective.
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5. In groups or teams, I seldom voice opinions that seem to turn some of the people off.
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6. I spend a lot of time thinking about what others think of me.
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7. It’s more important for me to do what I believe to be true than to try to win the appreciation of others.
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8. People who seem unsure about things lose my respect.
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9. More than other people, I need to have things exciting and interesting.
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10. I know how to keep my inner impulses in check.
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11. I have the ability to stick with difficult and hard problems over extended periods of time.
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12. On occasion, I get overly excited.
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13. I often get my best ideas when I’m doing nothing in particular or fooling around.
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14. I depend on intuitive feelings and hunches of “rightness” or “wrongness” when I’m moving toward the solution of a problem.
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15. During problem solving, I always work quicker when analyzing the problem and slower when combining the information I’ve collected.
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16. Sometimes, I get a kick out of breaking the rules and doing things which I’m not supposed to do so.
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17. I like hobbies which involve collecting things.
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18. Daydreaming has given the motivation for many of my more important projects.

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19. I like people who are sensible and objective.

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20. If I had to choose from the following 2 occupations other than 1 I now have, I would rather prefer to a physician than an explorer.
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21. I can get along more easily with people if they belong to the similar business and social class as myself.

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22. I have a high degree of visual sensitivity.
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23. I am ambitious to get high status and power in life.
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24. I like people who are very sure of their conclusions.
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25. Inspiration has nothing to related with the successful solution of problems.
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26. When I’m in an argument, my great delight would be for the person who disagrees with me to become a friend, even at the price of giving up my opinion.
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27. I’m much more attracted in coming up with new ideas or thoughts than in trying to sell them to others.
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28. I would rather enjoy spending the whole day alone than “chewing the metal cud”.
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29. I am likely to prevent situations in which I might feel inferior.
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30. In analyzing information, the source is more important to me than the content.

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31. I hate things being unpredictable and uncertain.

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32. I like people who follow rules, “business before pleasure”.

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33. Self-respect is much more worthy than the respect of others.

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34. I feel that people struggle for perfection and excellence are foolish.

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35. I prefer to work with others in a group or team rather than working on alone.

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36. I like work in which I must affect others.

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37. Many problems that I meet in life can’t be determined in terms of right or wrong solutions.

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38. It is important for me to have a place for everything and everthing in its place.

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39. Writers who use weird and odd words only want to show off.
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40. The following words are describing people. Choose 10 words which best characterized you.
Energetic
Original
Resourceful
Dedicated
Enthusiastic
Observant
Restless
Determined
Persuasive
Habit-bound
Predictable
Tactful
Acquisitive
Unemotional
Polished
Quick
Realistic
Socialable
Persevering
Independent
Innovative
Dynamic
Courageous
Informal
Self-confident
Open-minded
Fashionable
Egotistical
Formal
Inhibited
Practical
Clear-thinking
Efficient
Good-natured
Modest
Well-liked
Perceptive
Curious
Self-demanding
Flexible
Involved
Forward-looking
Alert
Thourough
Cautious
Stern
Factual
Poised
Organized
Understanding
Helpful
Impulsive
Absent-minded
Retiring




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