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    Why Smart People Hurt: A Guide for the Bright, the Sensitive, and the Creative
    Why Smart People Hurt: A Guide for the Bright, the Sensitive, and the Creative
    Why Smart People Hurt: A Guide for the Bright, the Sensitive, and the Creative
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    Why Smart People Hurt: A Guide for the Bright, the Sensitive, and the Creative

    Written by Eric Maisel

    Narrated by Seth Podowitz

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    Make Your Gifted Life Meaningful

    Overcome your unique challenges. The challenges smart and creative people encounter―from scientific researchers and genius award winners to bestselling novelists, Broadway actors, high-powered attorneys, and academics―often include anxiety, overthinking, mania, sadness, and despair. In Why Smart People Hurt, natural 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 isn’t, 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. In Why Smart people Hurt, Dr. Maisel will teach you how to stop searching for meaning and create it for yourself.

    Learn from a truly thought-provoking personal growth book. In Why Smart People Hurt, you will find:

    • Evidence that you are not alone in your struggles with living in a world that wasn't built for you or your intelligence
    • Logic- and creativity-based strategies to cope with having a brain that goes into overdrive at the drop of a hat
    • Questions that will help you create your own personal roadmap to a calm and meaningful life

    Readers of true, natural self-help books for gifted people struggling with life, anxiety, and depression, like Living With Intensity, Misdiagnosis and Dual Diagnoses of Gifted Children and Adults, and Your Rainforest Mind, will learn how to create meaning in their lives with Why Smart People Hurt by Dr. Eric Maisel.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherVibrance Press
    Release dateJul 9, 2020
    ISBN9781624617515
    Author

    Eric Maisel

    Eric Maisel, PhD, is the author of numerous books, including Fearless Creating, The Van Gogh Blues, and Coaching the Artist Within. A licensed psychotherapist, he reaches thousands through his Psychology Today and Fine Art America blogs, his print column in Professional Artist magazine, and workshops in the United States and abroad. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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    • 2/5
      This book started with such promise. It does a great job initially of describing the plight of intellectual individuals who are raised in disparaging environments, and due to anxiety and internalized self-doubt, come to believe that they ought to continue in a life unfulfilling and unchallenging. I enjoyed reading about the concept of meaning making, and this idea that we can adapt and adjust what gives us meaning. This message from the book resonated with me.

      Where I cannot endorse this book is when it comes to the author’s biased and relentless insistence of his own views, even despite dedicating a chapter to the being wary of the “lure of language” and how smart people get caught up in the agendas of language. Yet the author has a very evident agenda that is far from allowing the intellectual reader to come up with their own conclusions. The aspects I didn’t enjoy include:

      - Over-focus on the experience of mania and racing thoughts. (Although I’m sure some people experience this, I’m in the camp that can become more depressed and sullen with overthinking. The author mostly focuses on the former.)

      - Overt bashing of modern psychiatric conventions, including dismissing the existence of mental disorders and the legitimacy of psychotherapy.

      - Demeans religion and spirituality

      - The author is relentless at promoting natural psychology, which in itself is in line with the views above.

      Rather than objectively examining why smart people suffer, and rather than assembling together the ideas and findings of many smart people (like the book, “The Drama of the Gifted Child”), this author instead hides behind that theme to spin an agenda and convince his intellectual readers that his view is the only one that makes sense to finding meaning.

      7 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Excellent! Nice to put things into perspective and learn how to better cope with the stresses of the world, especially when you see things that others do not.

      3 people found this helpful

    • 2/5
      Kinda spoke in broad sweeping terms and gave no real direction. Lightly informative

      3 people found this helpful

    • 3/5
      The book contains some helpful insights into how we might prevent our brains from running away with themselves and causing undue anxiety. Unfortunately, the author also operates from the premise that we are an evolved species, driving this point very hard, and alienating the theist.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      As I read this book, I felt the author was able to articulate exactly what I have been feeling but could not find the words to explain. Thank you for this powerful message.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 2/5
      Like other reviews, this book started with a lot of promise and I was really interested. By mid book I was continuing to listen only to finish the book. I stopped listening at chapter 13, moving on.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      This is an amazing book that I will certainly read it many more times. Anyone who wants to understand a little bit more about themselves should listen to this book, and hopefully do the work they’re proposing. The questions presented give us an opportunity to rethink our beliefs, and maybe reorganize our thoughts, and our actions.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 1/5
      Poor and atheist book !! With no real content .?