Scott Barry Kaufman notes, “Although their unusual abilities compel considerable attention, there are fewer than 100 known prodigious savants living at the present time.”
He interviews one of these extraordinary people for his Beautiful Minds blog. Here is an excerpt:
Daniel Tammet: I don’t think it serves very much to label someone. IQ is a very good [...]
Alexander McQueen was praised by many for his fashion design talents. He took his life by hanging a little over a week ago.
The title of a recent Daily Mail [UK] article by Jane Fryer was “A life in fashion: Alexander McQueen was the hooligan of the catwalk who loved to shock – but nothing could [...]
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(And without taking a whole weekend — this retreat is designed for you to dip in and out — you get support for both options. This is a retreat that fits your life!)
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As part of her recovery from a water-skiing accident and brain surgery, actor and singer Charlotte Gainsbourg was evaluated with MRI scans, which can involve weird mechanical noises up to the intensity of a jet plane taking off.
Her new album, developed with Beck, is titled “IRM” – derived from the French for MRI. Follow the [...]
A London Times article notes that Stacy Ann Ferguson and her group the Black Eyed Peas have had “a record-breaking consecutive 26 weeks at the top of the US singles chart.”
Here is more from the article :
Fergie could have gone to Harvard if she’d fancied it… straight As, the stint as president of her student [...]
Author Caroline Myss says that healing is not only physical – “it is also a mystical phenomenon that transcends reason.”
She “instructs readers to move beyond the dilemma of needing to find logical reasons for why an illness has developed and instead get on with the task of personal transformation.”
Continued in Caroline Myss video / book: [...]
Being exceptional is by definition to be out of the ordinary, not normal in some notable ways, and according to some common standards of behavior or values.
Processing information much faster, for example, or being able to generate many more creative and unusual ideas than most people, or being highly sensitive.
Looking in a direction other than [...]
From article: Artist Mark Bradford, USC’s Elyn Saks win MacArthur grants, By Thomas H. Maugh II, Los Angeles Times, September 22, 2009.
USC law professor Elyn Saks is among the 24 winners of this year’s “genius” grants from the MacArthur Foundation.
Her own battle with schizophrenia has informed her advocacy for those suffering from mental illness.
She kept [...]
This is by Kristin from the Candy Sandwich blog. See some related TalentDevelop links at the end.
“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace [...]
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Using Biofeedback at Home, by Laura Johannes, The Wall Street Journal
Different Methods of Anxiety Treatment, by Wild Divine
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“We’re taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they’re of equal value as happiness, excitement and inspiration.” Alanis Morissette
To live a full life, we need to deal with extreme and self-limiting levels of feelings like anger, anxiety and depression. But too often, people run away from or try to [...]
Many creative and talented people choose to express themselves in performing arts such as acting and singing. But there are emotional and psychological consequences to the fame many performers gain.
Helen Hunt had a thoughtful comment about becoming famous as a movie and tv star:
“There’s a Rilke poem: ‘I want to unfold. / Let no place [...]
“Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence…” Edgar Allan Poe
The notion that creative people are much more likely to experience mental health disorders is actually supported by research. And a number of writers propose that mental illness may even help nurture [...]
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“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 are [...]
One morning, a blood vessel in Jill Bolte Taylor’s brain exploded. As a brain scientist, she realized she had a ringside seat to her own stroke. She watched as her brain functions shut down one by one.. Amazed to find herself alive, Taylor spent eight years recovering her ability to think, walk and talk.. Her [...]
Actor Virginia Madsen talks about her experience in ski school [Yes, Virginia, by Karen Breslau, More Magazine]:
Her third day on skis [Breslau writes], she persuaded her instructor to take her to the top of a black-diamond run — the kind inevitably named Devil’s Gulch or Dead Man’s Curve. She wanted to test herself.
“I was hurling [...]
