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Never Satisfied

“Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand — but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never ­being satisfied.”
Zadie Smith
The acclaimed novelist, essayist and short story writer offers more advice o…

Filed Under: Personality, Writers and writing Tagged With: Artists, creative life, creative passion, self-concept, Zadie Smith
By Douglas Eby: Resume | Facebook/The Creative Mind page

Shy or Introverted or Highly Sensitive in the Arts

Many actors, writers and other creative people are considered shy or introverted, or identify themselves as one or both. These are not the same thing, of course, although many people may talk about others, or themselves, as “shy” when they …

Filed Under: Personality, Sensitivity / Introversion Tagged With: Artists, Carl Jung, Highly sensitive person, J.K. Rowling
By Douglas Eby: Resume | Facebook/The Creative Mind page

Misfits May Be Innovators

“It’s better to be a pirate than to join the navy.” Steve Jobs
According to some writers and research, some of the “big names” of creativity and innovation share personal qualities with various sorts of “misfits.”
In her F…

Filed Under: Creative Thinking, Personality Tagged With: Alexa Clay, creative life, developing creativity, Entrepreneur, identity, Kyra Maya Phillips, self-concept
By Douglas Eby: Resume | Facebook/The Creative Mind page

Relentlessly Being More Creative

Part of the widely-circulated comments by Pearl Buck (winner of a Nobel Prize in Literature in 1938) includes this: “The truly creative mind [feels] the overpowering necessity to create, create, create — so that without the creating of music o…

Filed Under: Personality Tagged With: creative life, creative passion, developing creativity, identity, Mary-Elaine Jacobsen
By Douglas Eby: Resume | Facebook/The Creative Mind page

The Complex Personality of Creative People

  “If there is one word that makes creative people different from others, it is the word complexity.” Writer Juliet Bruce, PhD adds that creativity researcher Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (pronounced me-high chick-sent-me-high-ee) notes: “Instead of being an individual, they are a multitude. “Like the color white that includes all colors, they tend to bring together the […]

Filed Under: Personality Tagged With: creative personality, Gender role, Juliet Bruce, Kathleen Noble, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Personality psychology, Scott Barry Kaufman, Tilda Swinton
By Douglas Eby: Resume | Facebook/The Creative Mind page

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