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People With Creative Personalities Really Do See the World Differently
Not only do open people bring a different perspective, but they genuinely see things differently than most.
I think it's pretty well documented that artist, regardless of their field, walk a bit off the beaten path.
As Scott Barry Kaufman and Carolyn Gregoire explain in their book Wired to Create, the creativity of open people stems from a “drive for cognitive exploration of one’s inner and outer worlds”.
This curiosity to examine things from all angles may lead people high in openness to see more than the average person, or as another research team put it, to discover “complex possibilities laying dormant in so-called ‘familiar’ environments”.