Celebrities with anxiety; Are goals good?; Lynda Barry on Being More Creative; Addiction and Creative People

Celebrities with anxiety and panic attacks

Carrie Underwood: “At the beginning of my career, I used to have panic attacks. People were touching me, screaming-it made me really nervous. In public, I just get nervous. It’s a physical reaction, feeling like the walls are closing in.”  //

Read more quotes about and by well-known creative people in this article, including Helena Bonham Carter; Colin Firth; Edie Falco, and others.

Writer and therapist Pam Johnson points out there is value in achieving goals, because “Even if the goal is small, you will feel a great deal of success.”

Many personal growth leaders promote the idea of making long-term, life mission kind of goals as a needed part of personal achievement.I have never felt comfortable with that strategy, and here are other viewpoints on why those ‘huge’ goals may not be so useful.

A painter, cartoonist, and writer, among other disciplines, Lynda Barry is an assistant professor of interdisciplinary creativity.

She points to a critical shift in our teen years, when so many of us shut down experiencing creativity as play, or a “legitimate” way to use our time and talents, and slow down exploring how to be more creative.

A number of people with exceptional abilities have used drugs, alcohol and other substances – perhaps as self-medication to ease the pain and overwhelm of their sensitivity, or perhaps as a way to enhance thinking and creativity.Sometimes they risk addiction. More often, they limit their health and mental clarity needed for creative excellence.

One example: actor Robert Downey Jr. has reportedly been clean and sober for a long time, but admits to a long history of drug abuse. “For years I took pride in being resilient,” he says.

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and creative business ventures

Take a look at the products page for resources on developing creativity and creative business ideas from authors and coaches including Jennifer Lee of Artizen Coaching, Gail McMeekin, Brendon Burchard, Julia Cameron, Jenna Avery, Eric Maisel and others.

“The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.” Psychologist William James

Our needs for attention and appreciation may be basic, and grounded in survival as a child, but for some people, those needs are especially potent.

In a recent article, Ben Kingsley commented about being a performer as a child…

In her book Gifted Grownups, Marylou Kelly Streznewski illuminates many of the myths and challenges of being exceptional. Here are some excerpts.Are only the successful truly gifted?

For too long society has believed that if you aren’t president of General Motors, you aren’t gifted. If the estimates of the researchers are correct, and between 3% and 5% of the population is gifted, then we are talking about several million people.

Psychologist Paul Paulus has researched the value of group ‘brainwriting’ in which “group members write their ideas on paper and pass them to others in the group who then add their own ideas to the list…”

But Professor of Management & Organizations at Northwestern University Leigh Thompson, PhD writes in her book on the topic: “Several decades of research have unambiguously found that teams are demonstrably inferior to individuals when it comes to brainstorming and idea generation.”

People with higher IQs filter out useless info faster, study finds
“According to a new study from researchers at the University of Rochester, people with high intelligence quotient (IQ) scores have an ability to ignore sensory information, specifically irrelevant information we take in with our eyes.”

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