DEVELOPING    CREATIVITYNewsletter

11.01.14 edition

• Fear and Courage and Creating • Impostor Feelings & Your Creativity • Resources for Introverts and Highly Sensitive People > and more

“Creativity takes courage.”

Henri Matisse

"I spent too many years being ashamed about what I write."

Stephen King

Fear and Courage and Creating

“The artist begins with a vision — a creative operation requiring effort. Creativity takes courage.” Henri Matisse

What fears and anxieties are holding you back from expressing yourself more creatively?

Stephen King relates a story about his high school teacher critiquing some of his work.

King says, “I was ashamed. I have spent many years since — too many, I think — being ashamed about what I write."

Even very talented people may experience fraud or impostor feelings, and shame can feed those feelings.

Impostor Feelings Can Dampen Your Creativity

Resources for Introverts and Highly Sensitive People

This page includes articles plus some books, sites, videos and other material about these qualities of introversion and high sensitivity, and their impact

on our creative lives.

Additional articles in this edition :

• On Being Sensitive

• Perfectionism and Brene Brown on The Gifts of Imperfection

• Feeling like an impostor, a fraud

• Be Your Own Therapist

• The upside of our dysfunctions - "So many good things have happened to me because of how unhealthy I’ve been mentally.” Producer, Writer, Director Judd Apatow

• Getting Past Fear of Failure

• What Is Power And How Are We Empowered To Create?

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Developing Creativity

The Developing Creativity newsletter is a publication by

Douglas Eby, M.A./Psychology - writer, researcher and online publisher on psychology and

personal growth related to creativity.

Creator of the Talent Development Resources series of sites

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