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person to discover and explore new areas, to create or produce a new idea or theory or object including
the re-arrangement or reshaping of what already exists.”

The creativity of a military officer is never suppressed even in the face of a stress and extreme odds.
A successful military officer has creativity in a fairly high degree. The point to underscore here is
that his creativity is not suppressed even in the face of stress. The battle accounts of gallantry award
winners bear full testimony to this fact. This drives our attention to another quality of military officers
i.e. the emotional control or emotional maturity.
Creativity and Related Personality Factors
A creative person has a high level of psychological energy. This makes him a wanderer in his
conduct. He is freaky in his disposition. Creativity is seen in the intellect, dynamism and achievement
motivation. Creative people are sometimes branded as crazy, stupid, philosopher or jhakki. Ordinary
people as a routine tow the line of others whereas creative people generally avoid the beaten path. Plato
thought that a creative writer was the agent of a super power.

Crazy Obsessions !
Philosopher Kant had obsession to go for evening walk at a particular time. He would never deviate from his
routine; comes what way. His punctuality became the talk of the town. Once a man observed that Kant was late
by a few minutes. He went to him and told him about this. Kant asked for a time check and then the man found
that his own watch had stopped !

Photograph of Professor Kant

Torrance (1962) has compiled a list of 84 characteristics of a creative personality. Relevant to our
context are a few ones that can be associated with intellectual, leadership or dynamic behaviour. Some
of these are :—