Why Smart People Hurt (eBook)

A Guide for the Bright, the Sensitive, and the Creative (Creative Thinking & Positive Thinking Book, Mastering Creative Anxiety)

Eric Maisel (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2013
256 Seiten
Turner Publishing Company (Verlag)
978-1-60925-885-6 (ISBN)

Infos

The challenges smart and creative people encounter—from scientific researchers, genius award winners, to bestselling novelists, Broadway actors, high-powered attorneys, and academics— often include anxiety, over-thinking, mania, sadness, and despair. Specifically, Dr. Maisel examines:
'racing brain syndrome'living in an anti-intellectual culturefinding ideas worth lovingdealing with boredom and hypersensitivityfinding meaning in their lives and their workstruggling to achieve success
InWhy Smart People Hurt, psychologist Dr. Eric Maisel draws on his many years of work with the best and the brightest to pinpoint these often devastating challenges and offer solutions based on the groundbreaking principles and practices of natural psychology.His thoughtful strategies include using logic and creativity to cope with the problems of having a brain that goes into overdrive at the drop of a hat. With a series of questions at the end of each chapter, he guides the reader to create his or her own roadmap to a calm and meaningful life. Why Smart People Hurtis a must-read for parents of gifted children as well as the millions of smart and creative people that are searching for a more meaningful life.

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Make Your Gifted Life MeaningfulThis book will make a smart person even smarter. Dr. Katharine Brooks, You Majored in What? Mapping Your Path from Chaos to Career#1 Bestseller in Counseling & Psychology, Attention-Deficit Disorder, and Mood DisordersOvercome your unique challenges.The challenges smart and creative people encounterfrom scientific researchers and genius award winners to bestselling novelists, Broadway actors, high-powered attorneys, and academicsoften include anxiety, overthinking, mania, sadness, and despair. InWhy Smart People Hurt, psychology specialist and creativity coach Dr. Eric Maisel draws on his many years of work with the best and the brightest to pinpoint these often devastating challenges and offer solutions based on the groundbreaking principles and practices of natural psychology.Find meaningful success.Do you understand what meaning is, what it isnt, and how to create it? Do you know how to organize your day around meaning investments and meaning opportunities? Are you still searching for meaning after all these years? Many smart people struggle with reaching for or maintaining success because, after all of the work they put into attaining it, it still seems meaningless. InWhy Smart people Hurt, Dr. Maisel teaches you how to stop searching for meaning and create it for yourself.InWhy Smart People Hurt, you will find:You are not alone in your struggles with living in a world that wasn't built for you or your intelligenceLogic- and creativity-based strategies to cope with having a brain that goes into overdrive at the drop of a hatQuestions that help you create your own personal roadmap to a calm and meaningful lifeReaders of true, natural self-help books for gifted peoplestruggling with life, anxiety, and depression, likeLiving With Intensity,Misdiagnosis and Dual Diagnoses of Gifted Children and Adults, orYour Rainforest Mind, will learn how to create meaning in their lives withWhy Smart People Hurt.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.9.2013
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Lebenshilfe / Lebensführung
• Schlagworte: create meaning • Living With Intensity • Meaningful • Misdiagnosis and Dual Diagnoses of Gifted Children and Adults • overthinking • personal growth books • self help books for anxiety and depression • Smart People • Success • Thought-provoking • Your Rainforest Mind
• ISBN-10: 1-60925-885-1 / 1609258851
• ISBN-13: 978-1-60925-885-6 / 9781609258856