Creative people are a$$holes
The researchers looked at how six different personality traits influenced creativity. They found an openness to experience is the personality characteristic with the largest influence on creativity, a result seen in previous studies. Extroversion had a smaller effect, while emotionality and conscientiousness made no difference.
Agreeableness, which indicates that people can compromise, sympathize and get along well with others, also had no effect. But honesty-humility was shown to have a negative influence on creativity.
While the creative personality has many appealing traits -- being curious, broad-minded, and open to new experiences -- it has a few unappealing ones, like less modesty and more arrogance.
Creative pursuits often require teachers and mentors to nurture your talents and connect you to people who can get your work out to the public.
So the truly arrogant will have a harder time cultivating the relationships and networks needed to get 'plugged in' to a creative community.
