Creativity and Eccentricity - Unit 6

C1 Advanced · Listening Sentence Completion · Ready for C1 Advanced 4th Edition Workbook, Macmillan Education

You will hear a psychologist called David Laker talking about the link between creativity and eccentric behaviour. For questions 1–8, complete the sentences with a word or short phrase.

were something that physicist Isaac Newton avoided.

David says that

According to David, the author Charles Dickens believed he was being pursued by

condition.

David refers to a 1966 study that showed that eccentricity was a

information so they may behave strangely.

David says that eccentric/creative people cannot

than other people.

According to David, Anton Strue is researching why eccentric/creative people are more likely to be

, which affects behaviour.

Strue concluded that eccentric/creative people receive more information, especially

industry.

David believes that eccentric/creative people today have more opportunities because of the

to promote 'eccentric' ways of thinking.

David hopes that more university degrees will include

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