Positive personality trait

Creative

adj. Able to produce original and useful ideas or work.

4 ready sentencesUpdated Run by Adrian Nutiu

What it looks like

  • Comes up with more than one way to solve a problem.
  • Makes things: writing, music, designs, recipes, systems.
  • Combines ideas from different places in new ways.

Fits when a person habitually generates original and fitting ideas

Not when you are praising artistic taste, novelty alone, or dishonest accounting

How to say it

Replace the brackets with what the person actually did.

  • Resume line
    Created [campaign, design or process] that [result], adopted by [team or number of users].
  • Reference or recommendation
    [Name] is creative and practical: they designed [specific thing] that solved [problem] in a way nobody had tried.
  • Report card comment
    [Name] is creative in writing and art and brings original ideas to group projects.
  • In a story, shown not told
    With only cardboard and tape, she built a marble run that went down the whole staircase.
Example

The creative cook found three appealing uses for the leftover vegetables.

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