In Praise Of The Contrarian
Writers, and really all artists, are concerned about freedom of expression, because one usually needs to break the rules and ignore taboos to create something new and interesting. And so they are often considered very ‘disagreeable’ or ‘contrary’.
Psychologists largely agree that there are five really fundamental personality traits, one of which is “disagreeableness”. Not surprisingly, creative people score very high on measures of this trait.
