- Conference Session
- Biological & Agricultural Division Technical Session 1
- Collection
- 2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
- Authors
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Silvia Husted, Universidad de las Americas Puebla; Nelly Ramirez-Corona, Universidad de las Americas Puebla; Aurelio Lopez-Malo, Universidad de las Americas Puebla; Enrique Palou, Universidad de las Americas Puebla
- Tagged Divisions
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Biological & Agricultural
suggested that people rarely do truly creative work in an area unless they really love what they are doing and focus on the work rather than the potential rewards.5. Personality. Numerous research investigations have supported the importance of certain personality attributes for creative functioning. These attributes include, but are not limited to, willingness to overcome obstacles, willingness to take sensible risks, willingness to tolerate ambiguity, and self-efficacy. In particular, buying low and selling high typically means defying the crowd, so that one has to be willing to stand up to conventions if one wants to think and act in creative ways. Often creative people seek opposition; that is, they decide to think in ways that