Category: Allgemein
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In the ever-evolving world of creative professions, mental health is both a driving force and a fragile foundation. Artists, designers, musicians, writers, and other creatives often find themselves navigating intense emotional landscapes. While these emotions can be a source of inspiration, they can also become barriers to productivity and fulfillment. Understanding the relationship between creativity…
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ONCE UPON A time, artists had jobs. And not “advising the Library of Congress on its newest Verdi acquisition” jobs, but job jobs, the kind you hear about in stump speeches. Think of T.S. Eliot, conjuring “The Waste Land” (1922) by night and overseeing foreign accounts at Lloyds Bank during the day, or Wallace Stevens, scribbling lines…
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Just over 30 years ago, Julia Cameron’s agent gave her the immortally bad advice that no one was going to be interested in a book about creativity. “What on earth are you doing?” the agent demanded. Instead of shelving her manuscript, Cameron photocopied it and started selling it by hand. She got a new agent,…
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“Come to my state and read poems from the book over which you spent five years laboring. It’ll cost $400 in travel, $200 in lodging, and $20 in food and drinks. We can’t pay you but it’ll be a reeeeally big crowd and you can sell your book.” Article by Foster Rudy, published on Medium…
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Perfectionism is a widespread modus operandi among artists. In an essay inspired by the film Solo, our author reflects why this can lead to fear of failure rather than better work – and how one can overcome this faulty logic of self-judgment. This film is screened at this year’s online edition of the Norient Film…
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Your internal monologue shapes mental wellbeing, says psychologist Ethan Kross. He has the tools to improve your mind’s backchat As Ethan Kross, an American experimental psychologist and neuroscientist, will cheerfully testify, the person who doesn’t sometimes find themselves listening to an unhelpful voice in their head probably doesn’t exist. Ten years ago, Kross found himself…
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We can presume cultural and social narratives such as individualism and neoliberalism are the source of so-called narcissism — an inflationary term to explain arrogance, a sense of superiority, demand for control and negative evaluation of others. We may get the impression we surround ourselves by people acting entitled, self-centred, seeking power, success and significance.…
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Avoiding negative emotions seems like a good idea. It isn’t. According to recent psychological research (by David Barlow, Steven Hayes and others) one of the main causes of many psychological problems is the habit of emotional avoidance. This may seem surprising, because the attempt to avoid negative emotions appears to be a reasonable thing. After…
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Just weeks ago, many of us were living and working in a fast-paced world characterised by endless opportunities for consuming, traveling, and escaping. Now, everything has come to a standstill — including the electronic music scene. DJs and music fans are forced to remain in self-isolation. Some restlessly await the moment they can return to the…
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A cognitive bias is a systematic error in thinking that affects the decisions and judgments that people make. Some of these biases are related to memory. The way you remember an event may be biased for a number of reasons and that in turn can lead to biased thinking and decision-making. Other cognitive biases might…
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Psychologically speaking, a goal can give us a powerful sense of direction and order. It satisfies the natural desire for something to do, and we can feel good as we progress and check off milestones. But perhaps more importantly, goals can affect our overall sense of connection and purpose. We assign positive attributes, such…
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Ancient philosophy and creative work are rarely thought analogous. Maybe they should. Creative work of any kind—a book, a screenplay, a painting, an album, a business—really comes down to having something to say and a way to say it so people listen. As Ryan Holiday writes in Perennial Seller, “Anyone doing any kind of creative…
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In his influential paper of 1943, A Theory of Human Motivation, the American psychologist Abraham Maslow proposed that healthy human beings have a certain number of needs, and that these needs are arranged in a hierarchy, with some needs (such as physiological and safety needs) being more primitive or basic than others (such as social…
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Brené Brown is a shame-and-vulnerability expert. I know: that was my reaction, too. I’m really not wired for this sort of stuff, but bear with me. Here’s the thing: Brown, whose talk in 2010 on ‘the power of vulnerability’ has been viewed nearly six million times on ted.com (the organisation dedicated to ‘ideas…
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Most likely you have heard of the work of Joseph Campbell, the American writer and teacher who made his mark on the world with his captivating analysis of the hero’s journey that is found in many myths throughout human history. From Homer’s Odyssey to George Lucas’ Star Wars, Campbell traces the journey that a man…
Mental Support for Creative Minds 