Psychological profile of an artist

All human beings are unique and therefore different from each other. When we refer to a psychological profile, we are talking about making a description of those main traits and characteristics that a person has that determine their character, their attitudes, aptitudes and his way of perceiving the environment that surrounds him. It is about describing roughly the way of being and relating to others that the person has.

When we do an analysis of their psychological profile, we find similar and curious traits that are worth knowing. In this Psychology-Online article, we are going to describe in detail what is the psychological profile of an artist.

Index

1. What are artists like according to psychology
2. Psychological characteristics of an artist: the creative profile
3. Artists' minds and resilience

As we have mentioned before, there are a number of characteristics that people who are dedicated to art in general have in common. Next, we are going to mention in detail what each of these personality characteristics that artists possess consists of.

Great imaginative capacity

One of the main characteristics of artists and undoubtedly one of the most important is that they possess a great imagination. That is, artists have a great ability to make an excellent combination between reality and fiction, so they are the better generating new situations, images, speeches, it is easier for them to generate new ideas and, above all, develop them and take them to cape.

Originality

These are people who they always seek to get out of the standards and of social norms by nature. They generally do not agree with what society conventionally dictates and tend to act based on their own criteria. They always try to innovate and therefore to be original in terms of their works and creations, so they avoid looking like others all the time.

Holism

They are people who are capable of understanding different facets of problems or complicated situations, so they often find clever and creative solutions easily. That is, they are not closed to the same solution, but rather they are constantly open to experience and therefore are capable of seeking new solutions to solve problems.

Although each individual is different and we are all different from each other, making a description of the psychological profile of each one, some similarities can be found between some people and other This type of similarity can be found in people who have the same profession or similar interests. In this case with the artists. Discover here more features that make up the psychological profile of an artist:

Ambition

They are people who love to stand out before others and obtain their recognition and social prestige. They are motivated all the time by wanting to improve themselves and by wanting to do better. They do not settle for small achievements and they always aspire to more, which also fills them with self-confidence and a huge feeling of tranquility and well-being.

Perfectionism

These are extremely perfectionist people, who cannot be calm if they are left with the feeling that they did not do things quite right or that they could have done better. They are extremely demanding of themselves and they will not be comfortable until they feel that they have done their best.

Commitment

In general, artists are extremely passionate about what they do and therefore very committed. They enjoy being able to continually face new challenges and strive to achieve their personal goals. This is facilitated because they enjoy what they do all the time and therefore it can be said that doing it they find themselves in a “flow status”, That is to say that they can be so immersed in the activity they are doing that they even lose track of time, so when they come to see it they have flown by.

Creativity

We are all creative people on some level. In other words, we create content of a different nature. However, we can define an artist as a creative and innovative person because his mind is almost always oriented to the creation of new artistic material.

Artists, at least the successful ones, eventually learn to become more resilientIn other words, their ability to face adversity, facing their problems and not allowing themselves to be overcome by them, increases with each difficult situation they face. This is because because of their work, they are constantly exposed to failure since creative work can be described as a repeated failure process until you finally find something that fits well and works with what was intended achieve.

So being exposed to this requires a lot of patience and good emotional management. Finally, the artist who manages to increase his resilience and have enough tools to deal with this situation, learn that each "Failure" is one more step you take to get closer to success, therefore learn to deal better way with him. However, the artist who cannot bear to make mistakes and who has a very poor emotional management, you will never be able to develop your capacity for tolerance and resilience, therefore you will find yourself more far from being successful you want.

This article is merely informative, in Psychology-Online we do not have the power to make a diagnosis or recommend a treatment. We invite you to go to a psychologist to treat your particular case.

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