Monday, September 29, 2014

Are ideators introverts?

Ideators are often seen as sensitive people, and a lot of the words used to describe that sensitivity are used to describe introversion as well, for example, needing time alone, more reflective, more independent, and more refined. Indeed, introverts are often thought of as ideas people who are inventive through individual creative work without needing hype-filled brainstorming sessions to bounce ideas back and forth. Yet ideation is a continuum of introversion and extroversion, from idea generation to idea communication, and so ideators need to be flexible capable of switching between the inner world of ideas and images, and the outer world of people and things.