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Being exceptionally creative, intelligent, intense http://highability.org
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Douglas Eby
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"George Harrison's life as a creation of personality. ... For psychologist and theorist Kazimierz Dabrowski...personality meant something quite different, requiring us to suspend our usual understanding of personality and replace it with something else entirely. According to Dabrowski, a personality is something that we give ourselves, that we can create and shape, especially in adulthood, through continual change.
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Related article: Theory of Positive Disintegration as a Model of Personality Development For Exceptional Individuals, By Elizabeth Mika http://talentdevelop.com/articles/TOPDAAM1.html ---- Page with more articles and other resources: Dabrowski / advanced development http://talentdevelop.com/Dabrowski.html ---- Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/HighAbility 
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New study on prodigies reveals some startling findings. By Scott Barry Kaufman, Ph.D.... "Looking at all eight children together, the researchers found some striking patterns. The first thing they noticed is the wide spread of IQ scores- ranging from 108 to 147. Consistent with the work of Feldman and Morelock, it appears that a high IQ is not necessary to be a prodigy. What was particularly striking, however, was their subtest scores. Every single prodigy displayed an exceptional working memory." ~~ Related: Claire Danes and Temple Grandin on Autism and thinking differently
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Asperger’s and Creativity - Can Asperger’s Syndrome or related conditions include neurological differences and qualities that enhance creativity? http://blogs.psychcentral.com/creative-mind/2013/08/aspergers-and-creativity/
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Actor Emily Mortimer, even with the success of the hit TV show The Newsroom, says she still doubts her abilities, and “I’m probably far too self-conscious to be an actress.” Alison Pill [right] also has commented about insecurity, which many talented people experience.
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He was once just an Oscar-nominated actor. But his baffling left-turns into art, literature, and academia have led many to ask: is James Franco serious? Very, finds Helena de Bertodano
Franco comments: “It’s not new at all that term, the Renaissance Man. It’s something in the art world that’s very accepted, you see contemporary artists working in all kinds of mediums: sculpture, video, painting, performance. But I guess because I come from the commercial film world or maybe popular culture, when I do it, it is baffling to people.”
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Related quote by actor Viggo Mortensen: “Photography, painting or poetry – those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things, they are my way of communicating.” - From my page "Multitalented actors and other artists" - which lists many people including Julia Cameron, Bryce Dallas Howard, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jeff Bridges, Gordon Parks etc.
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Sharon M. Barnes, MSSW, LCSW, Therapist For Sensitive And Gifted, works with children, teens and adults who are creative, sensitive, intense, and often gifted people.
She comments that "many creative, sensitive, intelligent and/or gifted youth and adults feel like misfits, or as many have expressed, like aliens from a different planet."