Creative Traits

Donald MacKinnon studied the characteristics of creative architects. There is a hidden assumption here that if you want to become a certain type of person, you can adopt their habits, traits, characteristics, and become that type of person. So here are the traits of presumably creative people:
(1) Aggression - They tend to express their dislike for what others are doing
(2) Autonomy - They are very self-governed. It doesn't matter what others or the administration want, they will do their own thing.
(3) Low on socialization - If you socialize, you don't have time to be creative and let ideas manifest themselves.
(4) High on expressed desire to control others.
(5) Belong to fewer social groups - see (3).
(6) Independence - see (2). They don't follow the norms or trends set by others.
(7) Value some artistic standard of excellence and have a sensitive appreciation of the fittingness of architectural solutions to that standard - from personal experience, this may cause the other ones. When you have a standard and are extremely sensitive to it, it will be hard not to express this in some way listed above. This may also be one that uncreative people have the hardest time understanding.
(8) Not preoccupied with the impression they make on others
(9) Guided by aesthetic values and ethical standards which they have set for themselves - It is very important that they set these standards themselves. There is a list of traits uncreative architects have, and it is very much the opposite of this one. The difference in this point (in the uncreative list) is that they follow preset standards.

Intrinsic motivation is what allows creativity to foster. Image being a writer, publishing these amazing books. Then suddenly, someone pays you thousands of dollars to continue writing brilliant books. They feel like they are doing you a favor by giving you subsistence, but the motivational orientation has shifted, and now there is pressure externally to create. It will be much harder to write as well.