most of usknow about our feelings. There are people who cant even tell if they are ever happy, and ifthey are, when or where. In contrast, creative individuals are in very close touch with theiremotions. They always know the reason for what they are doing, and they are very sensitiveto pain, to boredom, to joy, to interest, and to other emotions. They are very quick to pack upand leave if they are bored and to get involved if they are interested. And because they havepracticed this skill for a long time, they need to invest no psychic energy in self-monitoring;they are aware of their inner states without having to become self-conscious.Start doing more of what you love, less of what you hate. After a few weeks of self-monitoring,sit down with your diary or your notes and begin to analyze them.The only way to stay creative is to organize time, space, and activity to our advantage.It means developing schedules to protect our time and avoid distraction, arranging ourimmediate surroundings to increase concentration, cutting out meaningless chores that soakup psychic energy, and devoting the energy thus saved to what we really care about. It ismuch easier to be personally creative when we maximize optimal experiences in everydaylife.Personality is nothing but a habitual way of thinking, feeling, and acting, as the more or lessunique pattern by which we use psychic energy or attention. Some traits are more likely thanothers to result in personal creativity. To change personality means to learn new patternsof attention, to look at different things, and to look at them differently; to learn to think newthoughts, have new feelings about what we experience.Develop what you lack. All of us specialise, which usually means that we neglect traits thatare complementary to the ones we have developed. Developing multiple perspectives canenrich our life considerably.Shift often from openness to closure: Perhaps the most important duality that creativepersons are able to integrate is being open and receptive on the one hand, and focused andhard-driving on the other.Aim for complexity. A complex system is differentiated, has many distinctive parts but it is alsoa very integrated system. The several parts work together smoothly. Evolution appears tofavour organisms that are complex; i.e., differentiated and integrated at the same time.Find a way to express what moves you. Creative problems generally emerge from areas ofLook at problems from as many viewpoints as possible. When we know that we have aproblem, consider it from many different perspectives.Creative individuals do not rush to define the nature of problems. They look at the situationfrom various angles first and leave the formulation undetermined for a long time. Theyconsider different causes and reasons. Because they pause to consider a greater rangeof possible explanations for what happens to them, creative people have a wider and lesspredictable range of options to choose from.Figure out the implications of the problems. Creative individuals experiment with a number ofalternative solutions until they are certain that they have found the one that will work best. Assoon as we think of a good solution, we should develop the habit of thinking of an