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Steve Pavlina on self-limiting beliefs and benefiting from The Lefkoe Method by Douglas E. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Happiness “I believe I can fly; I believe I can touch the sky; I think about it every night and day; Spread my wings and fly away; I believe I can soar…”Dick (Jim Carrey) from a scene i ... Read on »

The psychology of creativity: limiting ourselves with myths and attitudes by Douglas E. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Happiness If we hold certain kinds of beliefs about who we are and what abilities we have – whether we are even capable of being creative, for example – we can seriously limit what we d ... Read on »

Felicia Day on developing multiple talents: “I have a little obsessive-compulsive personality.” by Douglas E. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Happiness Actor, writer, producer Felicia Day says, “I don’t think I ever knew I wasn’t a geek” in the Girls Go Geek video below [posted on Amber Mac - site of Amber MacArthur.]In his W ... Read on »

If it’s hard to do that proves I’m stupid. Beliefs and personal development by Douglas E. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Happiness In his article Changing Beliefs, Douglas Cartwright writes about “a biggie – changing toxic and unhealthy beliefs we may have about ourselves.”He notes that in the book Cognit ... Read on »

Dee Wallace on changing our limiting beliefs by Douglas E. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Happiness “Saying what you want while holding energy against it doesn’t work. That is what most of us are doing with the Universe. We’re giving it conflicting directions.“It’s like a ... Read on »

Polanski: Should artists get a morality hall pass? by Douglas E. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Happiness Many artists are eccentric, contrary, even subversive – living on the edge in behavior and thinking – they are even expected to be “law-breakers” or at least “envelope-pushers ... Read on »

James Ellroy: “Crazy suppressed s— came out and blew up in my face.” by Douglas E. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Happiness From How James Ellroy lost his mind, The Week, October 8, 2009. In 2001 the best-selling noir novelist had a nervous breakdown while on a book tour.James Ellroy has an intimat ... Read on »

Drew Barrymore and Gretchen Rubin on authentic happiness as a choice by Douglas E. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Happiness Gretchen Rubin (author of the upcoming book The Happiness Project ) describes in her post How To Be Happier – in Four Easy Lessons the series of truths she came up with from a ... Read on »

Photographer Irving Penn by Douglas E. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Happiness Portrait of Pablo Picasso by Irving Penn | 1917-2009“He didn’t worry about questions of art versus commerce,” said Colin Westerbeck, a former photography curator at the Art In ... Read on »

The creative personality – “Mad Men” creator Matthew Weiner by Douglas E. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Happiness The excellent TV series “Mad Men” is a drama about the lives – both inner and outer – of executives, writers and secretaries in an advertising agency in the 1960s. It has garn ... Read on »

The gifted adult personality – too much for others? by Douglas E. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Happiness In her post Giftedness in the workplace (on the Talent Psychology site), Dr. Mary E. Jacobsen writes about some of the social challenges of being exceptional and intense, and ... Read on »

Personal growth development – can we get out of our ruts and change? by Douglas E. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Happiness Being seduced by the comfort of routine and the known is one of the ways we limit ourselves. Doing more about our inertia, we can grow more effectively toward who we want to b ... Read on »

Developing creativity – love and sex and our creative mind by Douglas E. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Happiness Our creative motivations and projects are based in some of our most primal passions, such as joy, anger, love and lust.In her article Creative Juice – A Dozen Key Lessons for ... Read on »

Developing multiple talents – the pleasures of creative polymathy by Douglas E. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Happiness The purposes of this site – Talent Development Resources – include celebrating multitalented creative people, and exploring how they realize their many talents.In his post “ T ... Read on »

And Now for Something Completely Different: The Ig Nobel Winners by Douglas E. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Happiness “The Ig Nobel Prizes honor achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think. The prizes are intended to celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative — and s ... Read on »

Creative inspiration – Matt Weiner, Lili Taylor, Carl Jung on using our subconscious by Douglas E. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Happiness What lies beneath our usual waking consciousness provides so much of the material we can use for creative expression.The Red Book is a new publication of Carl Jung’s journals ... Read on »

Beliefs and self growth and dealing with the fear of public speaking by Douglas E. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Happiness In his article Getting Rid of the Fear of Public Speaking Has to be Difficult – Are You Sure?, Morty Lefkoe writes, “After helping hundreds of people with a fear of public spe ... Read on »

Not like the others? by Douglas E. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Happiness One of these things is not like the others, One of these things just doesn’t belong, Can you tell which thing is not like the others By the time I finish my song?From Sesam ... Read on »

Over-Thinking and No-Thinking by Douglas E. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Happiness From article No-Thinking Zone, By Derrick Carpenter, Positive Psychology News Daily I over-think. A lot. And I bet many of you can relate.My over-analysis rarely takes me to a ... Read on »

Terri Levine on how to lessen anxiety by Douglas E. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Happiness From article: Tips to Lessen Anxiety, by Terri Levine : The anxiety I am talking about is that suffered by everyday workers, going about their business in a state of stress an ... Read on »

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