Douglas Eby
M.A. / Psychology
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Psychology of creative expression and personal growth Expert
Douglas Eby Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Psychology of exceptional ability and creative expression.
- Career Focus
- Writer, researcher, website publisher
- Affiliation
- American Psychological Association [APA] Division Ten - Psychology and the Arts; International Society for Gifted Adults and Advocates; Institute of Noetic Sciences
Douglas Eby, M.A./Psychology, is a writer and researcher focusing on the psychology of creativity and personal development - especially for high ability people with multiple talents.
Topics on his sites include identity, sensitivity, mental health, divergent thinking, visionary perception, creative passion, positive psychology and personality traits.
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Being Creative and Self-critical
http://talentdevelop.com/articles/BCSC.html
Courage and creativity
http://talentdevelop.com/articles/Page1051.html
Creativity and Depression
http://talentdevelop.com/articles/Page1045.html
Gifted, Talented, Addicted
http://talentdevelop.com/articles/GTA.html
Gifted Women: Identity and Expression
http://talentdevelop.com/articles/Page1.html
Feeding our active mind
http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/Feeding_Our_Active_Mind.html
~ List of articles - dozens of authors
http://talentdevelop.com/articlelive/authors/4/Douglas-Eby
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Is Intellect an Albatross?
Arianna Huffington has been described by her friend and author Sugar Rautbord as “probably one of the most intellectually seductive human beings on the face of the planet. She has such a powerful brain, and she exudes an intellectuality that is almost sexual." Does that sort of ...
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Effort And Flow
"The best moments usually occur when a person's body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile. Optimal experience is thus something we make happen." Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihaly Athletes call it the "Zone" - an optimal ...
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Developing Multiple Talents is an Adventure, But Not a Sure Thing
Do people with multiple talents realize their abilities as readily and as fully as they want? A high level of achievement and fulfillment is not an automatic outcome for all gifted and talented adults. In her book Gifted Grownups, Marylou Kelly Streznewski notes, "For too long society has ...
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Being Creative and Self-critical
Healthy criticism can help refine our talents and creative projects in the pursuit of excellence. But when it is based on a excessive perfectionism or an unrealistic self concept, criticism can be destructive and self-limiting, eroding our creative assurance and vitality. Many creative people, ...
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Creativity And Mature Women
Age and maturity can bring a new level of passion, ability and insight to creative projects. Many women affirm it is the best period of their lives. Anthropologist Margaret Mead once commented, "The most creative force in the world is the menopausal woman with zest." Novelist and poet Maxine ...
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Being Bold
"You either had to be willful or risk losing touch with yourself." Actor Judy Davis made that comment in an interview, saying, "To pursue acting... needed a fair degree of willfulness... I grew up in quite an oppressive Catholic society. In order to survive that, you either had to be willful or ...
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Actors and Addiction
Many talented people sometimes use and abuse drugs and alcohol, and engage in other self-destructive habits to deal with painful inner or outer experiences. Best Actor Oscar winner Philip Seymour Hoffman [“Capote”] admitted that earlier in his life he used “Anything I could get my hands on. I ...
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Being Brutally Honest With Ourselves
Telling lies to others to gain power, money or whatever is one thing. But what about the dangerous lies we tell ourselves? Psychologist Abraham Maslow helped define the field of personal development and the concept of self-actualization as the "ongoing actualization of potentials, capacities ...
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Eccentricity and Creative Expression
"I hope I'm becoming more eccentric. More room in the brain." --Musician Tom Waits A number of artists acknowledge that being unconventional is something positive. Reese Witherspoon has said her parents supported her ambitions to be an actress, and that, growing up in Nashville, "Being a ...
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Identity and Creating
Engaging in a creative venture often brings up questions and uncertainties related to personal identity: Am I qualified? Do I have enough experience, strength, talent, skill? Will the work be good enough? Will I be good enough? Creative expression is based on both our inner selves and our ...
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Is it a disorder, or just shyness?
"As a child, I was very shy. Painfully, excruciatingly shy. I hid a lot in my room. I was so terrified to read out loud in school that I had to have my mother ask my reading teacher not to call on me in class." - Kim Basinger Many of us were shy as children, and continue to be. In more extreme ...
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Gifted, Talented, Addicted
Writer Pearl Buck commented, “The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive.” Winner of a Nobel Prize in Literature in 1938, she also added, “By some strange, unknown, inward urgency they are not really alive unless they are ...
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Multiple programs and products for self improvement and personal development.
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Anxiety Relief Solutions
Multiple drug-free self-help products and programs to relieve social anxiety, phobias, stage fright, performance anxiety and other forms of anxiety.
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Talent Development Resources
Information and inspiration to enhance creative expression and personal development.
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Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Douglas Eby
“The world is filled with talented people, yet why is it that so few people live and achieve their dreams?” Jeffery Combs - from my post It takes more than talent to find your true potential
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“Each of us has a tendency to underestimate his or her own abilities. We should realize that we have deep within ourselves deep reservoirs of great ability, even genius that can be tapped if we'll just dig deep enough. It's the miracle of your mind.” - Earl Nightingale
Related post: Do we all have genius? Does it get drummed out of us?