Writer Charlie Kaufman [Nicolas Cage]: “To begin…To begin…How to start? I’m hungry. I should get coffee. Coffee would help me think.
“Maybe I should write something first, then reward myself with coffee. Coffee and a muffin. So I need to establish the themes. Maybe a banana nut. That’s a good muffin.”
From “Adaptation” – written by (the real) Charlie Kaufman, based on the book The Orchid Thief.
In his new book Mastering Creative Anxiety , creativity coach Eric Maisel, PhD asks, “Are you creating less often than you would like? Are you avoiding your creative work altogether?
“Do you procrastinate? That’s anxiety.
“Do you resist getting to your work or marketing your work? That’s anxiety. Do you have trouble deciding which creative project to tackle? That’s anxiety. Do you find completing work hard? That’s anxiety.”
In his many years of counseling as a psychotherapist, he has found, “Anxiety regularly stops creative people in their tracks and makes their experience of creating more painful than pleasurable.
“It stops would-be creative people entirely, preventing them from realizing their dreams. Anxiety is the number one problem that creative people face — and yet few even realize it.”
In his book he describes “many of the sources of anxiety in a creative person’s life” and provides “little-known anxiety-management techniques” to help you manage that anxiety.
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An additional perspective on creative people and anxiety comes from Charles Linden, who reports: “Over the last 12 years, through working with over 130,000 high anxiety sufferers, we have been able to collect data regarding character traits, genetics and environmental factors which has enabled us to characterize the typical profile of a person who has a predisposition to high anxiety conditions.
“Our data shows us that anxiety sufferers all share a superior level of creative intellect.”
That is from his article “Creative intellect as a marker for genetic predisposition to high anxiety conditions” – listed in my post High Ability, High Sensitivity, High Anxiety .
Charles Linden developed his self-help coaching program to help people overcome various forms of anxiety – see his site for info and many testimonials:
The Linden Method .
“Maybe I should write something first, then reward myself with coffee. Coffee and a muffin. So I need to establish the themes. Maybe a banana nut. That’s a good muffin.”
From “Adaptation” – written by (the real) Charlie Kaufman, based on the book The Orchid Thief.
In his new book Mastering Creative Anxiety , creativity coach Eric Maisel, PhD asks, “Are you creating less often than you would like? Are you avoiding your creative work altogether?
“Do you procrastinate? That’s anxiety.
“Do you resist getting to your work or marketing your work? That’s anxiety. Do you have trouble deciding which creative project to tackle? That’s anxiety. Do you find completing work hard? That’s anxiety.”
In his many years of counseling as a psychotherapist, he has found, “Anxiety regularly stops creative people in their tracks and makes their experience of creating more painful than pleasurable.
“It stops would-be creative people entirely, preventing them from realizing their dreams. Anxiety is the number one problem that creative people face — and yet few even realize it.”
In his book he describes “many of the sources of anxiety in a creative person’s life” and provides “little-known anxiety-management techniques” to help you manage that anxiety.
~ ~ ~
An additional perspective on creative people and anxiety comes from Charles Linden, who reports: “Over the last 12 years, through working with over 130,000 high anxiety sufferers, we have been able to collect data regarding character traits, genetics and environmental factors which has enabled us to characterize the typical profile of a person who has a predisposition to high anxiety conditions.
“Our data shows us that anxiety sufferers all share a superior level of creative intellect.”
That is from his article “Creative intellect as a marker for genetic predisposition to high anxiety conditions” – listed in my post High Ability, High Sensitivity, High Anxiety .
Charles Linden developed his self-help coaching program to help people overcome various forms of anxiety – see his site for info and many testimonials:
The Linden Method .