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How do creative people live and work? What are the qualities that make creative people different from others? Read the following passage and see what the author says.
富有创意的人是如何生活和工作的？他们的哪些品质让他们与常人不同？阅读下面的这篇文章，看看作者都说了些什么。
The Creative Personality
创意性格
I have devoted 30 years of research to how creative people live and work. If I had to express in one word what makes their personalities different from others, it's complexity. They contain contradictory extremes; instead of being an "individual," each of them is a "multitude."
我花了30年的时间研究富有创意的人是如何生活和工作的。如果要用一个词来概括他们的性格与常人的差别所在，那就是“复杂”。他们身上有着极其矛盾的特征，他们不是“个体”，每个有创意的人都是“复合体”。
Here are some traits that are often found in creative people. These traits are integrated with each other in a dialectical manner.
下面就是富有创意的人身上常会具备的一些特征。这些特征有机组合、辩证统一。
1. Creative people have a great deal of physical energy, but they are also often quiet and at rest. They can work long hours with great concentration while remaining fresh and enthusiastic all the time. This does not mean that creative people are always active. In fact, they rest often and sleep a lot. The important thing is that they know how to control their energy, which is not ruled by the calendar, the clock or an external schedule. When necessary, they can focus it like a laser beam; when not, creative types immediately recharge their batteries. This is not a biorhythm inherited with their genes; it was learned by trial and error as a strategy for achieving their goals.
富有创意的人精力充沛，但也经常安静地休息。他们可以注意力高度集中地工作很长时间，而始终神采奕奕、兴致勃勃。这并不是说富有创意的人超级亢奋。事实上，他们经常休息，睡得也很多。重要的是，他们知道如何掌控自己的精力，而他们的精力并不是由日历、时钟或外在的日程安排来控制的。有必要时，他们就能像激光一样专注；没必要时，富有创意的人就会立刻开始充电。这不是得自遗传基因的生物节奏；而是为达到目标而通过反复尝试掌握的一种策略。
