The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. Creative people have a need to express the world in different terms, to re-create the world, thus simplifying or focusing what they see. T his trait allows creative people to find new perspectives on and approaches to problems. The assertion here is that creative people think in terms of opposites and contraries while seeking synthesis of new ideas. That they think in metaphors and analogies and automatically challenge assumptions.
Some psychologists see genius as inseparable from failure.
This is contrary to the popular impression in our society that great creative artists were always successful. The reality is that creative geniuses tend to produce great quantities of mediocre work, and only some work that is great. What they do do is produce and keep producing work without giving up until they have achieved their vision. There are many, many creative people in our world, but most of them lack the drive or risk-taking ability to follow their visions or ideas out of mediocrity and into greatness. They simply give up too soon.