Bitsie Tulloch plays Dylan on the NBC and web drama series “quarterlife.” She attended Harvard University and graduated magna cum laude with a double major in literature and fine arts.
“I do think that now people go straight out of college and straight to the work place faster, but regardless of the career choices, the years in between 20 and 30 are really crucial and really transformative, and generally kind of confusing whether or not you want to admit that to yourself.
“It’s like, on paper, to the rest of the world, at 25 you’re an adult. But you may not feel like that. For me, I graduated from Harvard and was going to go to graduate school and ended up going to Hollywood, but as soon as I graduated, my family was like, ‘Okay! You’re on your own!’
“And there’s this weird sort of confusion where you want to go back to being protected but you can’t anymore.”
Bitsie Tulloch - New York Magazine 11/15/07.
quarterlife sites :
www.quarterlife.com
www.nbc.com/quarterlife
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One minute video by CYRES Cafe - Create Your Reality Experience Self - one of a series of One Minute Shift videos from IONS / Institute of Noetic Sciences.
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What motivates me:
“Meaningful work. I’m not interested in studying just to get a grade.
“I’m trying to understand what I’m doing and why it’s important—in class and on earth.”
Gisselle Callejas
Bard College at Simon’s Rock - “the nation’s first institution devoted to early college.”
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One of the hallmarks of being creative is sensitivity. But for many people, that sensitivity can lead to feelings of overwhelm and chaos. Some deal with it by retreating, some take drugs, others self-injure. But there are healthier ways to deal with the stress and anxiety.
The article Theory of Positive Disintegration as a Model of Personality Development For Exceptional Individuals [page 2] notes that psychologist Dabrowski “was keenly interested in self-mutilation as a phenomenon suggestive of higher than average sensitivity.
“His Ph.D. dissertation, first published in 1934.. showed the co-existence of self-mutilatory tendencies, creativity and strong developmental strivings in a select group of creative individuals.”
A recent news report: Self-Injury Found to be Common in High-School Students suggests that “teens are harming themselves at rates higher than previously suspected”
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In a recent interview, Keira Knightley declares she was never interested in playing “girl” roles. “This is a ridiculous thing to say,” she admits, “but I never liked being a teenager. I never felt comfortable being in a group of giggly girls. I always felt embarrassed and frightened by it.
“I couldn’t quite handle the high school thing, and I wanted to leave as soon as I could. So I suppose I never really wanted to explore it, whereas I did want to be a woman. Some of the teen flicks can be great, but it wasn’t the story I wanted to live in. Apart from Natalie Wood’s character in ‘Rebel Without a Cause’ [1955], where she plays a teenager, I just couldn’t imagine doing it. I wish I could have. I think I would have been a much better person for it.” [Interview mag., Dec/Jan 2008; photo from 'Atonement']
Many other talented and creative people “couldn’t quite handle the high school thing” and felt like outsiders, finding their teen years to be difficult and emotionally challenging.
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