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

Author: Eric Maisel

Narrator: Seth Podowitz

Unabridged: 5 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Vibrance Press

Published: 07/09/2020


Synopsis

Make Your Gifted Life MeaningfulOvercome 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 intelligenceLogic- and creativity-based strategies to cope with having a brain that goes into overdrive at the drop of a hatQuestions that will help you create your own personal roadmap to a calm and meaningful lifeReaders 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.

About Eric Maisel

Eric Maisel, PhD, is the author of more than fifty books in the areas of creativity, psychology, coaching, mental health, and cultural trends. He is a psychotherapist and the founder of the creativity coach profession, regularly working with lawyers, doctors, scientists, writers, painters, businesspeople, and folks from every walk of life. They include folks settled in a profession as well as people struggling to find an outlet for their intelligence and looking for work that will allow them to be as smart as they are. They include individuals who are successful in their careers and those who, because of the realities of the marketplace, struggle to achieve success. And through his books, they could include you.

Sought after as an expert in his field, Dr. Maisel regularly contributes to Mad in America, writes a monthly print column for Professional Artist Magazine, and writes the Rethinking Mental Health blog for Psychology Today. He has been the keynote speaker at many conferences and leads Deep Writing workshops worldwide.

Dr. Maisel currently resides in Walnut Creek, California.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Maria on August 23, 2021

Inteligência - Aliada ou Inimiga? As vicissitudes da busca incessante de Sentido e algumas sugestões úteis sobre como as ultrapassar! É algo absurdo ter a inteligência como inimiga ao invés duma aliada e este livro propõe-se desfazê-lo! 👍🌟🌟🌟🌟👍......more

Goodreads review by Jake on December 06, 2019

The central premise here is that if one enjoys intellectual stimulation, then they may find themselves bored with the various paths presented to them by life. Or , I guess more accurately, by the institutions that funnel them from social system to social system . In other words, many of the viable c......more

Goodreads review by Ian on August 20, 2020

Τον όρο First World Problems τον ξέρετε; Ε, αυτό σε βιβλίο ψυχολογίας. Ενδιαφέρον παρά τον τίτλο και μη με ρωτάτε γιατί το έπιασα, έχει πρόβλημα ένας φίλος μου έξυπνος.........more