Creative Personality

What are the psychological attributes of the creator? Researchers who look at creativity from personality perspective have identified a number of attributes. First, the creator displays a genuine passion for what he is doing. Second, because of his passion, the creator is willing to expend a lot of time and energy to realize his goals. Third, he has a high tolerance of ambiguity, i.e., he can live with a lot of uncertainties during the whole creative problem-solving process. Fourth, he is willing to take calculated risks in the task. Fifth, the creator is attracted to deep and complex ideas, and has broad rather than narrow interests in life. Sixth, he is an open person, i.e., he is willing to seek out and undergo different experiences. Finally, the creator is very confident in what he is doing, and behaves with a lot of independence and autonomy as a person.

Being open to his experience in this world, having broad interests in life and being attracted to deep and complex ideas enable the creator to develop and make use of complex mental models to solve problems in the real world. However, as far as creative work is concerned, these complex mental models are not sufficient by themselves. This is eventually must be translated into concrete action. In the process, the creator will encounter a lot of obstacles to the unconventional solution which he proposes. To overcome these obstacles, the creator needs to be passionate and committed to his work, to take calculated risks, as well as to persevere in the face of severe obstacles. The going will get especially tough when the creator faces social resistance of his community. In such a situation, the creator needs to display great autonomy, independence and confidence in what he is doing; otherwise he will succumb to the pressure to conform to his community.

Low inflation rate - A success?

Asian countries have woke up from 1997 economic crisis. They have more than 3 trillions US dollars in their foreign reserve, a spectacular figure never ever before. Many of them showing good macro economic indicators. Though inflation rate seems well under control, to me this relatively low inflation is a question mark. I'd like to highlight countries with high unemployment rate and people who live under poverty line is increasing. With so many people are jobless surely they don't have money to spend. Overall country spending is less, thus pull the inflation rate down.

Therefore we have to think and analyze whether this low inflation rate is a result of good economic performance of the country or simply because of poverty of the people who don't have money for shopping even to fulfill their basic needs. If shops have no buyers then automatically the prices remain stagnant if not going lower. Thus no inflation but deflation. So the fact is that lots of people are jobless and those without their other family members' financial support are living in poverty.
The most important task for a responsible government is to create jobs for its people. Economic development alone, even at high rate, is meaningless if it can not give job to majority of the people. If government can not create the jobs or can not facilitate the conditions leading to jobs creation by private sectors then the government is considered fail.

World Economic is Built on Crude Oil - Our Earth is Getting Damaged

Economic development built on crude oil to support people's comfort, desire and their ultra modern life style within just the last two centuries has been bringing unexpected and scary consequent such as destroyed ecosystem, creating many imbalances and anomalies to the nature of our mother earth. In the past human learned how to protect him from wild animals. Now he has to learn how to protect him from himself.