The Creative Mind

The Creative Mind Daily 6.12.18 - Posts include: *Valedictorian speech on sexual misconduct cut off *Creative People with Depression and Deeper Wounds *Getting Over Stage Fright |etc

The Creative Mind Daily for April 17 includes:
*How to Deal With Energy Vampires
*Savant abilities and learning differences
*Overcome Impostor Syndrome
*Addiction and High Sensitivity |etc

The Creative Mind Daily for March 30 includes:
* Impostor Feelings Can Dampen Your Creativity
* Eckhart Tolle programs
* Rue Hass On Using EFT To Help Highly Sensitive People | etc.

The Creative Mind Daily for March 17 includes: Missing or Abandoning Our Creative Fulfillment; Emotional health - Karla McLaren on working with emotions; Ranking and Self-Esteem | etc

The Creative Mind Daily for March 12 includes: Creating To Maintain Meaning; Mark Matousek on Writing for Health and Transformation; Using Our Shadow Self for Creativity and Healing | etc

The Creative Mind Daily - Wed Feb 28 - includes: Owning Our Shadow Self; Asperger's: Clearly bright; Empath Protection Against Energy Vampires; Pathologizing and Stigmatizing

The Creative Mind Daily Feb 24 - Creative people feeling like misfits; Learning Thinking Style; Heather Graham sends up Hollywood’s toxic masculinity; and more 

"Information and inspiration to enhance your creativity and personal growth." - The Creative Mind. Articles in the daily paper from the edition of Jan 16 include:
Gordon Parks: a Renaissance Man
Do We Need More Confidence To Be More Creative?
Adult underachievement - not living up to high potential

The Creative Mind newspaper for Monday, Dec. 18, 2017 - Information and inspiration to enhance your creativity and personal growth. 

Photo: Stephen King from one of the articles: 

Impostor Feelings Can Dampen Your Creativity

Information and inspiration to enhance your creativity and personal growth.

The Creative Mind newspaper - Information and inspiration to enhance your creativity and personal growth.

“Creative people combine playfulness and discipline, or responsibility and irresponsibility.”

Creative work can be deeply rewarding, but also physically and emotionally challenging.

The photo is Juliette Binoche in a movie - her character “is an art instructor suffering from severe rheumatoid arthritis...”

There are also emotional challenges in being creative, as Eric Maisel and Sharon M Barnes explain.

The Creative Mind Daily for May 08 - Posts include:
*Independent Thinking - the Maverick Mind
*You may be gifted - Are you denying it?
*Are performers raging narcissists?
*Ranking and Self-Esteem |etc

Why do we make art?
In one of her books, artist Lynda Barry addresses sensitivity, why we create, and the power of fairytales.

“There are certain children who are told they are too sensitive, and there are certain adults who believe sensitivity is a problem that can be fixed in the way that crooked teeth can be fixed and made straight.

The Creative Mind Daily for March 23 includes:
* Reverse Engineering the Brain;
* Paradoxes of Creative People;
* Existential Depression;
* Jessica Chastain and High Sensitivity | plus more

The Creative Mind Daily for March 8 includes: Solitude and creative expression; Outer Creation and Inner Life; Express Your Unique Voice; Are Gifted Underachievers More Creative? -- etc.

The Creative Mind Daily - Tues Feb 27 - includes: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - A Gifted Trauma Survivor; Eckhart Tolle Teaching The Power of Presence; Agnes Bruckner on the best acting advice; etc

Cat Rose notes about this edition of her podcast: "In this week’s episode of the Creative Introvert podcast I talk to Douglas Eby; writer, researcher and online publisher who focuses on psychology and personal growth especially in relation to creativity."

How does being ambitious impact creative people? How does it drive creative work?

Jane Piirto notes “Ambition and its doppelganger, envy, are not unknown among writers…For example, writer T. C. Boyle said he wanted to be ‘the most famous writer alive and the greatest writer ever.’”

Barbara Sher talks about being multifaceted as an identity to celebrate: “If you're a Scanner, you are a very special kind of thinker."

“Unlike those people who seem to find and be satisfied with one area of interest, you’re genetically wired to be interested in many things."

Photo: Gordon Parks [1912-2006] was often referred to as a Renaissance man.

Jeffrey Brown: But self-consciousness as in, hey, I’m an actor trying to write, or this isn’t my medium, or…

Tom Hanks: How about all those things? Plus a few other things

“Their creativity and productivity...were not the result of endless hours of toil. Their towering creative achievements result from modest ‘working’ hours.”