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		<title>Do we need solitude or connection to create?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some forms of creative expression - like acting and filmmaking - require collaborating with many other people; sometimes an artist needs isolation or works best alone.
Writer Erica Jong has commented, “Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to nurture it in solitude and to follow the talent to the dark places where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eric Maisel on Toxic Criticism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In one of his podcast series, Eric Maisel notes &#8220;Criticism is a real crippler. I’m sure that you know that. But you may not be aware just how powerful a negative force criticism can be, how much damage it can do to your self-confidence, or how seriously it can deflect you from your path.
&#8220;Almost nothing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://talentdevelop.com/devtalent/eric-maisel-on-toxic-criticism/</link>
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		<title>Educated out of our creativity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our self concept, recognition of our talents, appreciation for divergent thinking and pursuit of creativity can be guided and nurtured, or corroded and even corrupted, by our school experiences.
In his article Do schools kill creativity?, Sir Ken Robinson notes that &#8220;kids will take a chance. If they don&#8217;t know, they&#8217;ll have a go. They&#8217;re not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://talentdevelop.com/devtalent/educated-out-of-our-creativity/</link>
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		<title>Being a social animal and creative</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Much writing and advice on enhancing creativity focuses on the individual. But creating happens in a social context, and it depends on inspiration from others, and on getting an audience, and support from publishers and producers. Creative work impacts other people, even worldwide. But being creative can also be inhibited by others.
Dancer, choreographer and teacher [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://talentdevelop.com/devtalent/being-a-social-animal-and-creative/</link>
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		<title>How much do you censor yourself and your art?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The danger of censorship in the United States is less from business or the religious right or the self-righteous left than from the self-censorship of artists themselves, who simply give up.&#8221;
Writer and director Frank Pierson (former President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences) added, &#8220;If we can&#8217;t see a way to get [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://talentdevelop.com/devtalent/how-much-do-you-censor-yourself-and-your-art/</link>
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		<title>Eric Maisel on creative mindfulness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Creativity coach and therapist Eric Maisel, PhD notes the word mindfulness &#8220;stands for the nonjudgmental observation and acknowledgment of our thoughts.
&#8220;We notice the thought - for example, &#8216;I am running from my writing&#8217; - and acknowledge that we had the thought. The thought comes, we notice it, and it goes.
&#8220;The central goal of ordinary mindfulness [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://talentdevelop.com/devtalent/eric-maisel-on-creative-mindfulness/</link>
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		<title>Robert Genn on the confabulation of art</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Painter Robert Genn notes a definition of confabulation is &#8220;the confusion of imagination with memory, and/or the confusion of true memories with false memories.&#8221;
In his article Marvelous confabulation, he writes, &#8220;Perhaps it&#8217;s only with the addition of confabulation that art delivers its wizardry and magic.
&#8220;Early researchers, such as psychologist Daniel Berlyne (1972), linked confabulation with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://talentdevelop.com/devtalent/robert-genn-on-the-confabulation-of-art/</link>
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		<title>To create we need high energy - not anxiety</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There seems to be an enduring mythology about creative inspiration and performing as an actor, for example, that it benefits from an &#8220;edge&#8221; of nervous tension or even anxiety.
Creativity coach and writer Eric Maisel, PhD comments in our interview Ten Zen Seconds (about his new book) that this really is a false and distorting idea: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://talentdevelop.com/devtalent/to-create-we-need-high-energy-not-anxiety/</link>
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		<title>Einstein and other non-conformists</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In his Wired magazine article The World Needs More Rebels Like Einstein, Walter Isaacson notes that Einstein&#8217;s concept that &#8220;time is relative depending on your state of motion&#8221; had been explored by other scientists, who &#8220;had come close to his insight, but they were too confined by the dogmas of the day.
&#8220;Einstein alone was impertinent [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://talentdevelop.com/devtalent/einstein-and-other-non-conformists/</link>
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		<title>Judy and Hilary Swank on courage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Exploring who we are, putting ourselves into places and situations that develop our talents and abilities, standing up to internal and external pressures that get in the way - all that takes courage, and dealing with fear in positive ways.
After being fired from her office job of nine years, Judy Swank initially felt despair at [...]]]></description>
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