DEVELOPING CREATIVITY

Newsletter

9.20.14 edition

• Agatha Christie on fraud feelings

• "You think you’re so smart" - Reactions to gifted people

• Turmoil in your art – not your spirit

• The Feminine Power Course

• and more

articles include :

“You think you’re so smart.” or

“You’re too verbal… too bossy… too nerdy… too sensitive.”

Getting beyond impostor feelings !

Agatha Christie was one of the top-selling authors of all time. But she commented in her Autobiography:

"I don't know whether every author feels it, but I think quite a lot do — that I am pretending to be something I am not, because, even nowadays, I do not quite feel as though I am an author."

"You think you’re so smart. You’re too verbal…too sensitive" !

A number of movies include gifted and talented characters (such as Elle Fanning in Phoebe in Wonderland, in photo), and depict a variety

of characteristics related to exceptional people that are positive - but these qualities also can generate not so positive reactions from

others, such as the ones above.

Keeping the turmoil in your art – not your spirit !

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

!That quote is a perspective many artists and other gifted and talented

people with intense and “chaotic” inner lives may appreciate. But is turmoil necessary for creative expression?

The Feminine Power Course !

“The things we most deeply desire — such as love, intimacy, connection, belonging, creativity, self-expression — can’t be created with a system of

power based on control, analysis and logical, linear thinking, nor can they be executed with a strategic plan. To create these things we need to awaken a

different kind of power.” !

See video with testimonials about the Course [and another link to the site, with free download, like the above link] in my Facebook post.

Additional articles in this edition :

• "Some saw me as a person with rare insight, others thought I was crazy."

• Ian McKellen on being authentic

• Fear and being creative

• The Eudaimonic View of Happiness

• What makes gifted relationships so tough?

• Why worry? Does it help us at all?

• Brad Swift: from near suicide to a life of purpose

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