while projecting an aura of freshness and enthusiasm. But the energy of thesepeople is internally generated and is due more to their focused minds than to the superiorityof their genes.Creative persons are not necessarily hyperactive. In fact, they often take rests and sleep alot. But when they are working, their energy is under their own control. When necessary theycan focus it like a laser beam. When it is not, they immediately start recharging their batteries.They consider the rhythm of activity followed by idleness or reflection very important for thesuccess of their work.Creative individuals tend to be smart, yet also naive at the same time. Low intelligence canundermine creativity. But being intellectually brilliant can also be detrimental to creativity.People with high IQs may get complacent. Secure in their mental superiority, they losethe curiosity essential to achieving anything new. If learning facts and understanding theexisting rules of domains, comes too easily to a high-IQ person, there may be no incentive toquestion, doubt, and improve on existing knowledge.Furthermore, people who bring about an acceptable novelty in a domain seem able to usewell two opposite ways of thinking: the convergent and the divergent. Convergent thinkinginvolves solving well-defined, rational problems that have one correct answer. Divergentthinking leads to no agreed upon solution. It involves the ability to generate a great quantity ofideas; to switch from one perspective to another; and to pack unusual associations of ideas.Divergent thinking is not much use without the ability to tell a good idea from a bad one andthe selectivity involves convergent thinking. Many creative individuals have only two or threegood ideas in their entire career, but they are so good that they keep these people busy for alifetime.A third paradoxical trait refers to the related combination of playfulness and discipline.A playfully light attitude is typical of creative individuals but they are also dogged andperseverant as much hard work is necessary to bring a novel idea to completion and tosurmount the obstacles a creative person inevitably encounters.Creative individuals alternate between imagination and fantasy at one end, and a rootedsense of reality at the other. They break away from the present without losing touch with thepast.Such people also show shades of both extroversion and introversion. Usually each of ustends to be one or the other, either preferring to be in the thick of crowds or sitting on thesidelines. Creative individuals, on the other hand, seem to express opposing traits at thesame time.These individuals are well aware of the scholars who have preceded them and theircontributions. They also are aware of the role that luck has played in their own achievements.And they are usually so focused on future projects and current challenges that their pastaccomplishments, no matter how outstanding, are no longer very interesting to them. At thesame time, creative individuals know that in comparison with others they have accomplisheda great deal. So they display a sense of security and self-assurance.Creative individuals are also able to manage the paradox between ambition and selflessness.They can be simultaneously ambitious and aggressive and willing to subordinate their ownpersonal comfort and advancement to the success of the projects