Help your creative, itelligent personalities! They are sensitive.
The Creative Personality
Individuals who think a little different have suffered the consequences of the thoughts, most often due to the fear associated with change. Someone named Alfred de Musset is credited with once saying, "How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception." Upon the mountain peak you stand when you discover something so great, but if you are at odds with common thought of the day, you will be placed in the pit of societal disdain. I can often be heard saying (mostly in defense of myself), "Common sense is for common people." The rules were made as guidelines. The "truth" of everyday life changes. The masses move in various directions, sometimes correctly and sometimes not.
Love your creative people!
Individuals who think a little different have suffered the consequences of the thoughts, most often due to the fear associated with change. Someone named Alfred de Musset is credited with once saying, "How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception." Upon the mountain peak you stand when you discover something so great, but if you are at odds with common thought of the day, you will be placed in the pit of societal disdain. I can often be heard saying (mostly in defense of myself), "Common sense is for common people." The rules were made as guidelines. The "truth" of everyday life changes. The masses move in various directions, sometimes correctly and sometimes not.
Love your creative people!
Creative people's openness and sensitivity often exposes them to suffering and pain, yet also to a great deal of enjoyment. Most would agree with Rabinow's words: "Inventors have a low threshold of pain. Things bother them." A badly designed machine causes pain to an inventive engineer, just as the creative writer is hurt when reading bad prose.
Being alone at the forefront of a discipline also leaves you exposed and vulnerable. Eminence invites criticism and often vicious attacks. When an artist has invested years in making a sculpture, or a scientist in developing a theory, it is devastating if nobody cares.
Deep interest and involvement in obscure subjects often goes unrewarded, or even brings on ridicule. Divergent thinking is often perceived as deviant by the majority, and so the creative person may feel isolated and misunderstood.
Perhaps the most difficult thing for creative individuals to bear is the sense of loss and emptiness they experience when, for some reason, they cannot work. This is especially painful when a person feels his or her creativity drying out.
Yet when a person is working in the area of his of her expertise, worries and cares fall away, replaced by a sense of bliss. Perhaps the most important quality, the one that is most consistently present in all creative individuals, is the ability to enjoy the process of creation for its own sake. Without this trait, poets would give up striving for perfection and would write commercial jingles, economists would work for banks where they would earn at least twice as much as they do at universities, and physicists would stop doing basic research and join industrial laboratories where the conditions are better and the expectations more predictable.
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