7 habits of highly creative people

Well, it looks like there's really only one habit: increasing psychological distance. (via kottke)

According to CLT, psychological distance affects the way we mentally represent things, so that distant things are represented in a relatively abstract way while psychologically near things seem more concrete.

This actually makes bushels of sense. Assuming you know a really creative person (i.e. artist, writer, musician, whatever) you've probably noticed that they seem slightly, well, you know. Also great news for space cadets everywhere, who can point to their dreaminess as evidence of creative neurons making connections that the more mentally present might not.