Douglas Eby
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Creativity for Negative Feelings
How can creative expression help us deal with anxiety, depression and other difficult or disrupting emotions? → Read More
Do We Have to Know It All to Be Innovative?
Are strategies like brainstorming, extensive information gathering, and deep analysis of data the most productive to enhance innovation thinking? → Read More
Be Spontaneous to Be Creative
Creative expression involves using and balancing both our "heart" and "head" working together. → Read More
Are you a creative late bloomer?
Malcolm Gladwell notes: “Genius is inextricably tied up with precocity." But there are many examples of people who created notable work later in life. → Read More
Being Creative and a Successful Entrepreneur
“Your idea is only as good and bankable as the business behind it.” // Beate Chelette is a career coach and successful entrepreneur. She sold her creative business to Bill Gates in 2006 for millions, and says she is now devoted to “teaching... → Read More
Writing to Find Yourself and Free Your Deep Creativity
How can writing help us learn more about who we are, and release more creativity? One answer is writing can be a powerful tool for accessing our shadow self. → Read More
Writing To Give Your Reader Goosebumps
“Accessing your authentic message and writing your transformational book is one of the most powerful things you will ever do for yourself, your readers, your business and ultimately – the world.” // A profile notes Christine Kloser “teaches... → Read More
Why Write A Book And How To Do It
Books are far from dead. They’ve been around for hundreds of years, and they aren’t going anywhere any time soon. But the format is changing to digital. → Read More
The Highly Sensitive Creative Person
Writer Carolyn Gregoire in an article on the topic thinks one reason highly sensitive people may be so creative is an unusual depth of feeling. → Read More
Struggles and Joys of Women Leading Creative Lives
“No matter what, I have a right to be in my studio doing this; it’s good, it’s good for my family, it’s good for me.” – Sculptor Janis Wunderlich // Artists are creative people regardless of their gender, of course,... → Read More
Dealing With Holiday Stress When You’re Sensitive
“When we’re sensitive to other people’s emotions and struggles, holidays bring extra challenges.” // Carol Burbank, Ph.D. continues: “Winter celebrations bring their own craziness, the joy/grief cycle of memory, reunions and rituals... → Read More
Norman Holland on the brain and literature
In his book “Literature and the Brain,” Professor Norman N. Holland details how we may respond so deeply in both creating and experiencing literature – novels, plays, poems, tv and movies – and the neuropsychology underlying our often intense... → Read More
Jamie Lee Curtis: Writing Is More Creatively Satisfying
Although acclaimed as an actor, Jamie Lee Curtis says she finds writing “way more” artistically satisfying for her than acting. // Her multiple children’s books “address core childhood subjects and life lessons in a playful,... → Read More
Dealing with Depression to Access Our Creativity
Many people experience depression, including prominent artists. Some of them, like Sylvia Plath, Virginia Woolf, Robin Williams and so many others, have died by suicide. // One of the myths of creativity is that you need to be depressed to be creatively... → Read More
How To Write Better and More: Advice From Authors
What gets in the way of our writing? There is no simple answer, of course, but here are some perspectives from accomplished authors on what to be aware of and what to do that may help write more and write better. // Stephen King relates an early... → Read More
You Wear Many Hats As An Author
As an author, even if connected with a publisher, you have more to do than just create a book and expect it will be seen by the audience it could benefit. → Read More
Solitude To Be Creative
Some forms of creative expression involve collaborating with other people. But a number of artists make use of isolation and do their creative work best alone. → Read More
Elizabeth Gilbert on Jackhammers and Hummingbirds and Creative Life
“Follow your bliss.” Joseph Campbell That kind of advice continues to be part of what many coaches teach to realize success and fulfillment in life. // But does “Find your passion” work for everyone? In an interview for Oprah... → Read More
Creating Art By Noticing Subtle Details
Photorealist painting demands a high degree of technical prowess and attention to detail - which may be enhanced by the personality trait of high sensitivity. → Read More
Terrence Howard: “We’re All Artists”
Known for his role in the TV series "Empire," Terrence Howard is multitalented: he produced an album of his music, and comments about being a creative person. → Read More