INDUSTRIOUS CREATIVITY Researcher Sally Reis (2001) found that notably creative women were typically “intelligent, hard working, imaginative, and strong willed” as girls. In her acceptance speech for the 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature, author Alice Munro, shown here, spoke about creativity as hard work. “Stories are so important in the world. . . . [The part that’s hardest is] when you go over the story and realize how bad it is. . . . [T]hat is when you really have to get to work on it. And for me, it always seemed the right thing to do.”
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