Creating our identity / self-portrait

Natalie Portman: "Sometimes I get scared that I’m not a creative person, because it seems creative people are really flaky...” [Esquire, Aug 2004]

We can all too easily take on cultural stereotypes and other distorting concepts of what an artist is - or a scientist, actor, writer, baker or anything else we might want to be.

Wayne Dyer: "Don’t make others’ feelings about you more important than your opinion of yourself. If you’ve allowed any negative thoughts and opinions directed your way to become the basis of your self-portrait, you’re asking the universal mind to do the same.”

> See his programs at Nightingale-Conant

> Also see the pages self-esteem/self concept and self concept articles