The Creative Mind

Topics in our interview relate to the creative mind and developing creativity, including the seven brain activation patterns she discusses in her book.

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 April 7 includes:
*The Perils of Grit
*Thriving As A Highly Sensitive Entrepreneur
*Junot Diaz on Creative Thinking
*Oxytocin and Social Phobia | and more

The Creative Mind Daily for March 28 includes:
* Helping our emotional health through creative expression
* Kerry Washington on the power of silence
* Depression and High Sensitivity | etc.

Cheryl Arutt, Psy.D., a clinical psychologist specializing in creative artist issues, writes: “I am continually amazed at the work of the unconscious in the minds of creative artists.

"The capacity to hold many details in the conscious, wakeful mind may seem limited; the unconscious is capable of holding far 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.

“There is evidence that such creators as Vincent Van Gogh, Emily Dickinson, Albert Einstein, and Alan Turing, among many others, all had Asperger Syndrome."

Are we sometimes (or often) waiting for some powerful creative idea to be delivered to us from outside, by some sort of Muse, in order to know what to do, or have the “creative energy” we think we need to have before accomplishing something creative?

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

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

Are strategies like brainstorming, extensive information gathering, and deep analysis of data the most productive to enhance innovation thinking?

“I hope I’m becoming more eccentric. More room in the brain.”
Musician Tom Waits

Therapist Sharon Barnes notes in an article some of the challenges that creative, exceptional people may experience.

Also see quotes by other psychologists and artists.

"What would be truly surprising would be to find that sound could not suggest colour, that colours could not evoke the idea of a melody, and that sound and colour were unsuitable for the translation of ideas.” Charles Baudelaire

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

The Creative Mind Daily for April 14 includes:
*Writing Honestly: Writing and Fear
*How to Improve Our Business Mindset
*Emotional Health for Creative, Gifted, Highly Sensitive People | etc. -- [See link near top to "Read current edition"]

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 24 includes:
* Getting past overwhelm & distraction as HSP
* Not time to ditch gifted label
* She started acting at 88 in ‘Black Panther’ | 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 Feb 24 - Creative people feeling like misfits; Learning Thinking Style; Heather Graham sends up Hollywood’s toxic masculinity; and more 

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."

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

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

Being creative and realizing our talents involves self-awareness and respecting who we really are, including our unconscious depths. -- Jodie Foster comments...

Creative expression involves using and balancing both our "heart" and "head" working together.