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Creating and Fear
After working for ten years as an actor, Karen Moncrieff became a screenwriter. In a Writers Guild magazine article, she notes “Writing felt so comfortable in a way that acting never really did. With...
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Being Highly Sensitive and Creative
“Highly sensitive people are all creative by definition.” Elaine Aron, PhD adds that it is “because we process things so thoroughly and notice so many subtleties and emotional meanings that we can...
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Steve Jobs: Intensities and Overexcitabilities
Listening to Walter Isaacson (in his interview with Charlie Rose) about his new bio of Steve Jobs, one of his comments that caught my attention was this [paraphrased]: “The deep emotionalism surprised...
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Developing Creativity in Solitude
“Creativity is always collaborative, even when you’re alone.” Keith Sawyer “Artists work best alone.” Steve Wozniak Different kinds of creative expression have different needs in terms of solitude...
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Hearing in Colors, Tasting Voices: The Experience of Synesthesia
“What would be truly surprising would be to find that sound could not suggest colour, that colours could not evoke the idea of a melody, and that sound and colour were unsuitable for the translation of...
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Too Noisy To Hear Myself Think
Do you use music for creative work? Do you get distracted by noise? In one of my interviews with psychologist and author Susan Perry, PhD, she commented that a writer she knew chose a fresh CD for each...
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Are Introverts More Creative?
Creativity researcher Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi declared creative people, based on his extensive studies, are “Both extroverted and introverted, needing people and solitude equally.” [From my earlier...
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Creative? Introverted? Then You’re Probably Not Seen As A Leader
“People often avoid the uncomfortable uncertainty of novel solutions regardless of potential benefit.” That quote comes from the Forbes magazine article Managing The Psychological Bias Against...
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Trusting Your Creative Self
If we are willing to put our creative work out there – into the world in some way – it will be judged and ranked. What if our book doesn’t make it to a bestseller list, our painting is not accepted by...
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Jessica Chastain, High Sensitivity, Crying and Creative People
“I’m very sensitive in real life. I cannot not cry if someone around me is crying…even if it’s not appropriate. I have that thing in me, a weakness or sensitivity.” Jessica Chastain She is such a...
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Ang Lee: The Director, The Introvert
Ang Lee recently won his second Academy Award as best director for “Life of Pi” (his first was for “Brokeback Mountain”). In an article on leadership, Susan Cain gives a number of examples of...
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To Be More Creative, Be An Introvert
Author Susan Cain declares: “Without introverts, the world would be devoid of: the theory of gravity; the theory of relativity; W. B. Yeats’s “The Second Coming”; Chopin’s nocturnes; Proust’s In...
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Creativity and Highly Sensitive Men
Psychologist Ted Zeff, among others, notes the personality trait of high sensitivity can be particularly challenging for men, especially in this culture. But many boys and men find that creative...
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Are You A Highly Sensitive Person? Be More Creative.
People with the personality trait of high sensitivity have qualities that can help make them more creative, including a greater awareness of subtleties in emotional and sensory detail. Creativity coach...
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Shy or Introverted or Highly Sensitive in the Arts – Part 2
[Continued from Part 1.] “I remember when I met director Ang Lee and we were left alone. I was so shy and he was so shy neither of us said anything to each other for about 20 minutes.” Actor Sigourney...
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Shy or Introverted or Highly Sensitive in the Arts – Part 3
[Continued from Part 1 and Part 2.] Emma Watson on being introverted: “People say things to me like, ‘It’s really cool that you don’t go out and get drunk all the time and go to clubs,’ and I’m just...
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Creative Work: Preparation, Performing, Perfectionism
Preparation is often a crucial part of creative work, and many, if not most, creative people are highly sensitive – which can enhance this preparation. With something like twenty percent of us being...
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Embracing Even The Pain of the Creative Process – Part 2
[See Part 1] Many artists use creative expression to explore and express pain in life, but does creative work itself have to be painful for most of us? Frida Kahlo painted a series of self-portraits as...
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Sensitivity and Creativity: Cheryl Richardson and Alanis Morissette
“The more you become your own best champion, supporter, cheerleader, and trusted confidant, the better able you’ll be to fully and joyfully express your blessed creativity. “That’s when your art...
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Robin Williams: Intensity Is Not Pathology
The tone of a number of responses to the suicide of Robin Williams seem based in the insidious “Crazy Artist” mythology: that artistic creativity depends on mental disorder. A number of people have...
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