The Creative Mind

"Information and inspiration to enhance your creativity and personal growth." - The Creative Mind. Articles in the daily paper from the edition of Jan 16 include:
Gordon Parks: a Renaissance Man
Do We Need More Confidence To Be More Creative?
Adult underachievement - not living up to high potential

Are we sometimes (or often) waiting for some powerful creative idea to be delivered to us from outside, by some sort of Muse, in order to know what to do, or have the “creative energy” we think we need to have before accomplishing something creative?

The Creative Mind newspaper for Thursday, Dec. 21, 2017 - Information and inspiration to enhance your creativity and personal growth. By Douglas Eby

How does being ambitious impact creative people? How does it drive creative work?

Jane Piirto notes “Ambition and its doppelganger, envy, are not unknown among writers…For example, writer T. C. Boyle said he wanted to be ‘the most famous writer alive and the greatest writer ever.’”

The Creative Mind newspaper for Saturday, Dec. 09, 2017 - Information and inspiration to enhance your creativity and personal growth, by Douglas Eby.

Photo: Thomas Moore on creativity and living our experiences
This brief audio clip is from his video interview "Detoxing the Soul" for the HealthMeans For The Holidays free health presentations event, with many other experts. http://healthaffiliate.center/20939-25.html

Barbara Sher talks about being multifaceted as an identity to celebrate: “If you're a Scanner, you are a very special kind of thinker."

“Unlike those people who seem to find and be satisfied with one area of interest, you’re genetically wired to be interested in many things."

Photo: Gordon Parks [1912-2006] was often referred to as a Renaissance man.

“This was a significant reversal, since it meant the idea of genius went from referring to a separate force that guided and, in effect, occasionally possessed people to referring to a special inner quality that people themselves possessed.”

"Would creating a work of art be easier for you if an inspiring spirit were here to guide you? To spark you with endless new ideas?"

Jeffrey Brown: But self-consciousness as in, hey, I’m an actor trying to write, or this isn’t my medium, or…

Tom Hanks: How about all those things? Plus a few other things

“Their creativity and productivity...were not the result of endless hours of toil. Their towering creative achievements result from modest ‘working’ hours.”

Being creative and realizing our talents involves self-awareness and respecting who we really are, including our unconscious depths. -- Jodie Foster comments...

Creative expression involves using and balancing both our "heart" and "head" working together.

"Information and inspiration to enhance your creativity and personal growth." - The Creative Mind.
Articles in the daily paper from the edition of Jan 17 include:
Gifted in the workplace;
Programs for Introverts and Highly Sensitive People;
Exceptional, gifted adults without enough positive self-regard;
and more

Sunday, Jan. 07, 2018 - Information and inspiration to enhance your creativity and personal growth. 

The Creative Mind newspaper for Monday, Dec. 18, 2017 - Information and inspiration to enhance your creativity and personal growth. 

Photo: Stephen King from one of the articles: 

Impostor Feelings Can Dampen Your Creativity

Information and inspiration to enhance your creativity and personal growth.

Information and inspiration to enhance your creativity and personal growth. Collection by Douglas Eby

“My wife says that when I emerge from my office and declare that not only am I writing a bad book, I’m writing the worst book anyone has ever started, then she knows that I’m two-thirds of the way there.”

The Creative Mind newspaper - Information and inspiration to enhance your creativity and personal growth.

And still it is not enough to have memories. One must be able to forget them when they are many, and one must have the great patience to wait until they come again.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke

“Patience is a somewhat devalued commodity. Particularly among those who ought to know better – writers themselves.” – Dennis Palumbo

“Creative people combine playfulness and discipline, or responsibility and irresponsibility.”

Creative work can be deeply rewarding, but also physically and emotionally challenging.

The photo is Juliette Binoche in a movie - her character “is an art instructor suffering from severe rheumatoid arthritis...”

There are also emotional challenges in being creative, as Eric Maisel and Sharon M Barnes explain.

Are strategies like brainstorming, extensive information gathering, and deep analysis of data the most productive to enhance innovation thinking?