Highly Creative Engineers Need Plasticity, Divergence, and Convergence

From Wired to Create: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Creative Mind by Scott Barry Kaufman and Carolyn Gregoire:

"Creative people not only cultivate a wide array of attributes but are also able to adapt - even flourish - by making the best of the wide range of traits and skills that they already possess.  This ability to adapt to changing circumstance with fluidity and flexibility is reflected in three main "super-factors" of personality that are highly correlated with creativity: plasticity, divergence, and convergence. Plasticity is characterized by the tendency to explore and engage with novel ideas, objects, and scenarios.  Characteristics like openness to experience, high energy, and inspiration are all related to each other, forming the core of this drive for exploration.  Divergence reflects a nonconformist mind-set and independent thinking and is related to impulsivity and lower levels of agreeableness and conscientiousness.  Finally, convergence refers to the ability to conform, put in the hard effort necessary to exercise practicality, and make ideas tenable.  Convergence consists of high conscientiousness, precision, persistence, critical sense, and sensitivity to the audience.  Individually and together, these diverse qualities encourage the development and expression of creativity."