28 Evolution: A Generative Source for Conceptualizing the Attributes of Personality
promotes an architectural cohesion that remains unchal-
lenged by variations that could be risky (i.e., potentially di-
minish established levels of order).
In contrast, those functioning at the innovating pole are
characterized by an openness to forming new and imagina-
tive cognitive constructions of a more-or-less impromptu
character. They are inclined to search for and enjoy creative
ideas and solutions, to find novel ways to order information
and to accumulate negative entropy, so to speak, by stepping
outside of what is known and given in order to establish a
new and potentially higher level of cognitive organization.
Innovators stretch beyond confirmed perspectives, seek to
broaden interpretations of experience, and are not concerned
with demonstrating their reliability. The imaginative attribute
is typically associated with being open-minded, spontaneous,
extemporaneous, informal, adaptable, flexible, resilient, im-
pressionable, creative, inventive, and resourceful.
It is to those who combine these latter two persuasions
that the present chapter is heartily addressed.
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