Singer Joss Stone talked about being highly sensitive: “I think I’m just very, very emotional. My mom used to call me her little empath. Which can be dangerous when you set yourself to be that open. “But in another way, it just makes your life fuller…” Continued on Highly Sensitive. high sensitivity resources, gifted talented [...]
An article in the journal Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy reports “Several surveys indicate that Americans rank speaking in public as their number one fear. “This fear can be socially debilitating, and is often cited as a primary reason why someone is unable to advance in his or her career. “Different therapeutic approaches have been developed [...]
To be successful and high achieving takes inborn talent; talent will out; you need a gift to be exceptional – all these are myths, according to research detailed by Geoff Colvin in his book Talent Is Overrated. These preconceptions also fuel a sense of inadequacy, lower esteem or decreased self-efficacy for many people, and distorted [...]
What we choose to be, the dreams we invest time and energy in pursuing, the ways we relate to other people and the world, how passionately we develop our talents, how we identify and esteem ourselves – all are impacted by our beliefs. “It ain’t so much the things we don’t know that get us [...]
An autistic savant, Daniel Tammet can recite more than 22,000 digits of pi from memory. He believes such astounding abilities are based on an associative form of thinking and imagination, not due to some cerebral or genetic fluke. He thinks differences between savant and non-savant minds have been exaggerated, to the detriment of how most [...]
A new Eide Neurolearning Blog post refers to studies on attentional style and creativity, including a study that notes, “…psychometric measures of creativity and measures of real-world creative achievement are associated with a habitual tendency toward diffuse rather than focused attention, which results in ineffective filtering of distracting or irrelevant environmental stimuli.” From the Highly [...]
This video – “Failure: The Secret to Success” – may be a corporate image propaganda commercial for Honda, but it has some good stuff on attitudes about failure and bouncing back. For example, talking about her life-threatening crash, race driver Danica Patrick comments: “There was a crash.. My brain was covering up for the fact [...]
Being perfectionistic may be an attempt to be seen as superbly competent, and it can support the pursuit of excellence, but it is ultimately futile, and we can support our personal growth if we are less driven to be perfect. Personal growth coach Molly Gordon says in her thoughtful video that being disappointing is about [...]
Gifted children often learn to stifle or cover up their unusual cognitive abilities and other talents. As adults, many still follow a pattern of hiding and retreating. When she began directing in the forties, Ida Lupino sometimes claimed not to know the best way to line up a shot or specify a line reading, explaining [...]
highly sensitive people, emotional intensity, overexcitability, gifted and talented As a highly sensitive person, we can feel more, react to others and the environment more easily and deeply, and sometimes get overwhelmed by so much intensity and stimulation. But it can also fuel creativity. As Dolly Parton put it, “I hurt real easy and real [...]
Gut reaction, hunch, instinct, nose, presentiment, second sight – the ability to gain understanding outside the usual senses and rational thought can be an invaluable guide to enhance our personal development and help realize ourselves more fully, but there are also potential limitations and distortions. Part of the motivation for writing about this topic was [...]
highly sensitive personality, highly sensitive people books, emotional overload “May you live in interesting times” is reputed to be an ancient Chinese proverb and curse. We are certainly in an amazing period of history, with wonderful changes and opportunities for social and personal growth – but also with much cause for overwhelm, especially if you [...]
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changing career, finding new vocation, characteristics of entrepreneurs, psychology of entrepreneurs, personal qualities for small business success “It’s the future that keeps me excited,” Barbara Winter writes in her newsletter. “All of us who are engaged in our own enterprises are also pioneering a new definition of what it means to be an entrepreneur. “Yes, [...]
“Creative people, as I see them, are distinguished by the fact that they can live with anxiety, even though a high price may be paid in terms of insecurity, sensitivity, and defenselessness for the gift of ‘divine madness,’ to borrow the term used by the classical Greeks. “They do not run away from non-being, but [...]
developing creativity, anxiety and creativity, anxiety relief programs “Only a small percentage of creative people work as often or as deeply as, by all rights, they might be expected to work. “What stops them? Anxiety or some face of anxiety like doubt, worry, or fear… anxiety is the great silencer of the creative person.” Therapist [...]
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Site author: Douglas Eby, M.A./Psychology, is a writer and researcher on the psychology of creative expression and personal growth, especially for high ability adults. He is publisher of the Talent Development Resources series of sites.
