I'm creative enough to deduce why people like me are eccentric. I believe it's a function of how our minds operate. We(or more accurately I) cannot simply turn my mind off and conform to social norms we can't justify. As an example, I understand the need to wear pants in public. That's not a problem. What I can't understand is how wearing a suit(a fashion that really hasn't changed in over 150 years) makes me more productive, improves the quality of my code. And I also cannot understand why I would ever need to wear a tie(except as a napkin, though that seems to be frowned upon.) So creatives can follow social structures they can justify, but won't conform for the sake of conformity. Again, I'm not a sociology professor, nor am I a psychologist, I'm someone who has been labeled both creative and eccentric most of my life.
So... why ~are~ creative people eccentric? Eccentrically, I have decided to not pay for this article. Creatively, I am still interested in whatever insights the article may contain.
Could not read the article either but I'm eccentric because the fundamental material creativity exercises on is the self!