The Creative Mind

Contents include: * Pushed to Excel; * Creative and Multitalented; * Programs for Introverts and Highly Sensitive People; * Why Smart People Hurt book - & much more.

Ada Lovelace talked about her passions for creative imagination and math:

“Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently … It is that which feels & discovers what is, the REAL which we see not, which exists not for our senses.

“Mathematical science shows what is. It is the language of unseen relations between things..."

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* Stories about your introversion;

* Energy Management;

* Emotional Health Resources;

* Letting Go of Perfectionism

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There seems to be an enduring false mythology about creative inspiration that it benefits from an "edge" of nervous tension or even anxiety.

“One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“For me, fashion is incredibly emotional. I go to shows in Paris and try not to cry.”Actor Jessica Chastain

Qualities such as emotionality and empathy can help highly sensitive people be especially creative.

"Creative mindfulness requires that you vanish, your mind hushed, so that your creative thoughts can appear. Open to an ever-deepening silence that is pregnant with your coming creative work.”

> Eric Maisel, PhD.

Contents include:
*The Unknowing Gifted
* A Different Story [for your life]
* Highly Sensitive Personality and Creativity
* Books To Fuel Your Creative Mind
* & much more.

Making meaning is especially crucial for creative people, and one of the potential consequences of insufficient meaning in our lives and work is depression.

Julie Taymor made a comment about her work: “Whatever it is, I have to really love it…When you approach it that way, you come at it with all your soul and intelligence.”

Creative people and writers about the creative process often say creative work is a way to release or make use of inner chaos; what is this turmoil?

"The very impulse to write, I think, springs from an inner chaos crying for order, for meaning, and that meaning must be discovered in the process of writing or the work lies dead as it is finished." Arthur Miller

Ocean Robbins and his father John are examples of transformational authors, and give tips on writing and developing creativity.

“Then for ten minutes, write stream of consciousness style, without letting your pen leave the paper except to move to a new letter, on the topic you selected. Don’t censor, don’t edit, and don’t stop..."

* site for Highly Sensitive People
* Pathologizing and Stigmatizing: The Misdiagnosis of Gifted People
* How to Make Your Creative Business Stand Out
* Your Grown-Up Back-to-School Creative Reading List
and much more

One kind of pressure is feeling an intense urge to create as a creative person. But other pressures can lead to stress and overwhelm.