Being exceptional - creatively gifted and talented - may include and encourage social isolation, since true peer relationships are both rare and demanding. People who are hypersensitive may find they need protective separation, even from well-meaning family and friends, and likely romantic partners, to protect and more fully realize themselves.
Linda Kreger Silverman, Ph.D., head of [...]

A hostile environment in a sexual harassment case may include “anything that creates fear, intimidates, ostracizes, psychologically or physically threatens, embarrasses, ridicules..” etc.
A number of thinkers are saying that forces like corporatism and fundamentalism are exerting increasingly suppressive effects on creative people.
Davidson Loehr [Ph.D.s in philosophy and religion; senior minister of the First Unitarian Universalist [...]

Writer Larry Kane commented about his bio Lennon Revealed: “People would be surprised at how insecure John Lennon was, and his lack of self esteem. Throughout his life, even during the height of Beatle mania, he had poor self esteem, even though he exuded confidence.”
Self esteem is positive self-regard, a realistic acknowledgment of your talents [...]

Being seduced by the comfort of routine and the known is one of the ways we self-limit. In his book on personal development and achievement, Unhypnosis, Steve Taubman writes that some people experience “atrophy of imagination” from a “continued repetition of an unsatisfactory life script… a rut is a grave with the ends kicked out. [...]

Arianna Huffington is described by her friend and author Sugar Rautbord [in Vanity Fair] as “probably one of the most intellectually seductive human beings on the face of the planet. She has such a powerful brain, and she exudes an intellectuality that is almost sexual.”
Does that sort of exceptional mind have potential negative consequences, particularly [...]