- Highly developed ability to visualize.

- Have numerous synaesthesias between the senses.

- Use multiple perspectives.

- Highly developed ability for switching between 1st (self), 2nd (other) and 3rd (meta) position.

- Ability to move back and forth between different chunk sizes and levels of thinking.

- Feedback loop between the abstract and the concrete.

- Make internal models that run on their own without conscious direction.

- Develop special states for access to unconscious processes.

- Basic familiarity with necessary data.

- Incorporate randomness into the creative process.

- Balance of functions: Dreamer, Realist and Critic.

- Strategy for generating questions.

- Intense childlike curiosity.

- Search for what they do not know.

- Perceive lack of success as feedback.

- Use of metaphors and analogies.

- Use of simple but abstract models.

- Basic models divided into three interactive elements.

- End with a map onto some external formal system of representation.

- Have a mission beyond their individual identity.