If you walk the streets of some towns, you can almost always pick the people who work for certain employers. It may be my weird sense of humour, but each time I see one of these people, I imagine the Human Resource officers squeezing the new hire into a machine that plunks the person into a mould and then squeezes and scrapes away the parts that don't fit. Now, don't get me wrong. I'm not saying that a good organizational match between employee and company is wrong. And creativity, as we all know, is a driving force in business survival and superiority.
Some people say to find a creative person, look in the mirror.
To an extent, every person is creative - we do find a creative person when we see our image in the mirror. His book, Creativity, gives the results of this study. Specifically, Csikszentmihalyi's states that creative people have one trait that most makes them different from other individuals - complexity. But Csikszentmihalyi doesn't leave this term complexity undefined. Not surprisingly, his definition of complexity backs up years of previous research into creativity.