The Creative Mind

The Creative Mind

gifted/high ability adults

Our Complex and Creative Personality
"If there is one word that makes creative people different from others, it is the word complexity."
 • Douglas Eby
Online communities that support creative, highly sensitive, gifted, neurodivergent people
How can participating in a community of others that share your unique personality and cognitive differences help enhance your personal growth and…
 • Douglas Eby
Intensity and Being A Creative Person
Intensity may often be part of the life of creative artists and high ability people, and accompany their trait of high sensitivity.
 • Douglas Eby
How to thrive in business as a multipotentialite with Emilie Wapnick
"For the independent, self-starter multipotentialite, creating your own business is often the best option."
 • Douglas Eby
Highly Sensitive, Intense, Ultra-aware and Gifted – Not Disordered
Being intense and highly sensitive are common experiences for many, if not most, creative and gifted people, but these qualities can sometimes be…
 • Douglas Eby
Gifted and Neurodivergent - How does our brainmind work differently?
Listen now | Understanding what's going on can lead to a better path in life. "First we have to know we're gifted... And that could sound like so…
 • Douglas Eby
32:48
Creative and Gifted, With a Rainforest Mind - Insights of Psychotherapist Paula Prober
Some of the complexities and challenges of being exceptional and neurodiverse
 • Douglas Eby
24:12
How To Connect to Our Creativity with Tye Glover, an excerpt from The Perception Podcast
Listen now | Tye Glover is an Ideation Coach, and Founder and President of Think Different Nation. This is an excerpt from his conversation with…
 • Douglas Eby
13:54
Thriving more as gifted or BIPOC - navigating cultural dynamics and conformity pressures
Listen now | "I was not really allowed to be so gifted, and I threatened their self concepts. Which is to say that I wasn’t really encouraged or allowed…
 • Douglas Eby
17:26
Neurodivergence, giftedness, sensitivities - excerpt from interview with Nicole A. Tetreault by Imi Lo
Podcast | Imi Lo interviews Nicole Tetreault, a neuroscientist, psychologist and researcher on neurodiversity, giftedness, and brain differences.
 • Douglas Eby
12:38
How Online Improv Helps Gifted/2e People - Julie Skolnick interviews Gordon Smith
[podcast] "Improv games cultivate openness and playfulness, relaxation and self-care." 2E or twice exceptional people are gifted as well as experiencing…
 • Douglas Eby
9:27
Positive Creative Obsessions
Creativity coach Eric Maisel, PhD thinks obsession is a more or less necessary element of creative achievement. Artists comment about their own…
 • Douglas Eby
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