The Creative Mind

The Creative Mind Daily for March 15 includes: Psychologist Cheryl Arutt on Creative Artist Issues; Christian Mickelsen on Business Success; Emotional Health Program; Navigating College As a HSP | etc

The Creative Mind Daily Feb 24 - Creative people feeling like misfits; Learning Thinking Style; Heather Graham sends up Hollywood’s toxic masculinity; and more 

"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

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

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

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.

“I hope I’m becoming more eccentric. More room in the brain.”
Musician Tom Waits

Therapist Sharon Barnes notes in an article some of the challenges that creative, exceptional people may experience.

Also see quotes by other psychologists and artists.

Here are four books with related videos for exploring your creative mind, and helping you, your children and students be more creative.

This skill of emotional intelligence is important for living well in general, for individual creative expression, and for business success and innovation.

KH Kim, author of "The Creativity Challenge: How We Can Recapture American Innovation" says "Innovators experience deep emotions, are sensitive to the environment, and are emotionally expressive."

Psychologist Robert Maurer cites research: "if you have people have to mix during the course of their day, they will sometimes create ideas they would never do as they’re isolated in their cubicles.”

Elizabeth Gilbert addresses a number of topics related to being creative, including dealing with fears.

In an essay from her book on creativity, she notes: “I made a decision a long time ago that if I want creativity in my life – and I do – then I will have to make space for fear, too.

The Creative Mind Daily for March 8 includes: Solitude and creative expression; Outer Creation and Inner Life; Express Your Unique Voice; Are Gifted Underachievers More Creative? -- etc.

The Creative Mind daily -- This image shows some of the articles in the edition of Feb. 02, 2018.

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?

Information and inspiration to enhance your creativity and personal growth.

“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.”

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.”

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

How can being a freelancer work out for creative people? Creative freelancers include web designers, copywriters, programmers, photographers and others.

Who do you think you are to be creative?

Do you feel confident about calling yourself an artist, or a creative person? Or do self-doubts get in the way?

Artists are at times depicted in movies and media in ways that promote myths about what it takes to be a “real” singer, writer, actor, painter or other creator.

Buying in to the negative aspects of those depictions and myths – for example, the “crazy artist” idea – can distort our self concept, our sense of identity as a creative person, and limit what we think we can do creatively.

Attitudes to be creative and more innovative

“I don’t see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way – artistically.” Lady Gaga

How do attitudes we hold about ourselves and the world impact our creative thinking? Can we change those attitudes to be more creative?

In her research publications and book The Creativity Challenge, KH Kim describes a model and series of concepts for helping children and adults be more creative and productive.