The document summarizes the results of a creativity self-assessment taken by 13 students and an instructor at the Stuart School fall semester of 2012. It lists 8 qualities measured by the online assessment at creax.com/csa: abstraction, connection, perspective, curiosity, boldness, paradox, complexity, and persistence. The assessment helps individuals understand their strengths and weaknesses in each of the 8 creativity-related qualities.

1. Creativity Self Assessments
13 students + instructor
“Got Creativity?” –Stuart School
Fall 2012
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2. CREAX Qualities
From the online Creativity Self-Assessment at www.creax.com/csa
• Abstraction – the ability to abstract concepts from ideas.
• Connection – the ability to make connections between things that don’t initially
have an apparent connection.
• Perspective – the ability to shift one’s perspective on a situation – in terms of
space and time and other people.
• Curiosity – the desire to change or improve things that everyone else accepts
as the norm.
• Boldness – the confidence to push boundaries beyond accepted conventions.
Also the ability to eliminate fear of what others think of you.
• Paradox – the ability to simultaneously accept and work with statements that
are contradictory.
• Complexity – the ability to carry large quantities of information and be able to
manipulate and manage the relationships between such information.
• Persistence – the ability to force oneself to keep trying to derive more and
stronger solutions even when good ones have already been generated.
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