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• The author will promote during his numerous guest appearances, interviews and keynotes. He has been interviewed more than 500 times by print, radio, television, blog, and podcast interviewers. 


• Dr. Maisel is an influential figure in the critical psychology, critical psychiatry, and anti-psychiatry movements, writing extensively for Psychology Today and Mad in America, being a founding member of the global task force on mental health diagnostic reform, and writing seminal books in this area including The Future of Mental Health and Humane Helping. His books have sold several hundred thousand copies. 


• He will market direct to the creativity coaches who are members of the support and information groups that he runs and directly to the tens of thousands of creative and performing artists who follow him on his weekly personal newsletter, his three weekly blogs for the Good Men Project, his posts on Thrive Global (where Arianna Huffington is a personal fan), and his weekly blog for Fine Art America, which reaches 250,000 visual artists weekly. 


• He is a world expert in the field of critical psychology and critical psychiatry, founded and serves as lead editor for the Ethics International Press Critical Psychology and Critical Psychiatry series, has been awarded the prestigious title of Diplomat Coach by the International Association for Professional Coaching & Mentoring.


• This title will be supported by Lynda Monk, with whom Dr. Maisel has collaborated on many projects and who has the largest worldwide reach to journal-keepers as director of the International Association for Journal Writing. It will also be supported by Gerard O’Donovan, president of Noble-Manhattan Coaching, the world’s largest provider of coach training programs, whose monthly newsletter goes out to 100,000 coaches and with whom Dr. Maisel has collaborated on two recent training programs, a Creativity Coach Certificate Program and an Existential Wellness Coach Certificate Program. 







 His current reach includes:

• Current email list subscribers: 5000+ 

• Psychology Today “Rethinking Mental Health” blog: 3 million views 

• Blog posts across multiple platforms (Psychology Today, Huffington Post, Thrive Global, the Good Men Project) archived at Authory: 1000+ blog posts 
• Twitter followers: 2000+ 
• Facebook followers and friends: 2000+ 
• LinkedIn connections: 2000 + 
• Students purchasing DailyOM classes: 35,000 + 

• Weekly blog for Fine Art America newsletter: 250,000 visual artists weekly 

  Autorentext

  Eric Maisel, PhD, is the author of more than 50 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 folks 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. Visit him at www.ericmaisel.com.

Klappentext

Working alongside Dr. Eric Maisel’s bestselling Why Smart People Hurt, this new guided journal helps you work through the difficult challenges bright, emotional people face on a daily basis.

Zusammenfassung
Working alongside Dr. Eric Maisel's bestselling Why Smart People Hurt, this new guided journal helps you work through the difficult challenges bright, emotional people face on a daily basis.

Leseprobe

From the Introduction



 We do not celebrate intelligence for its own sake. That someone is brilliant, or smarter than average, is important to humanity only because he or she may find a way to contribute to the betterment of all of us by producing a vaccine, by desalinating the sea, by opening our eyes to injustice through writing, art, or oratory, or in some other way that serves us all. 

 We need our best and our brightest. They do the most to keep civilization afloat. It follows that we should try to help them meet the challenges that they regularly face. That is the goal of this journal, to help you meet an array of challenges that you are likely to face or will inevitably face. I want to give you the chance to think about these pressing, poignant challenges and come up with your own best solutions. 

 Smart, sensitive, creative people face an array of challenges peculiar to their temperament, outlook, intellectual needs, psychological makeup, interpersonal realities, work opportunities, and position in society. This journal provides you with the opportunity to consider whether any of these challenges may be confronting you—and what you might like to do to better meet them. 



Inhalt

Contents

Introduction 

 Entry 1. Your Unfriendly Family

Entry 2. Society and Religion

Entry 3. Workplace Unfriendliness

Entry 4. The Role of Mass Culture

Entry 5. The Bigger Picture

Entry 6. Feeling Different

Entry 7. Feeling Misunderstood

Entry 8. Feeling Underutilized

Entry 9. Feeling Alienated

Entry 10. Feeling Special … And Small

Entry 11. Stuck on the Dull Track

Entry 12. Aimed in the Direction of “Safety”

Entry 13. The Family Business

Entry 14. How Social Pigeonholing Works

Entry 15. Hiding Your Light Under a Bushel

Entry 16. The Day Job Problem

Entry 17. The Right Day Job

Entry 18. Your Remaining Neurons

Entry 19. Too Long at the Day Job

Entry 20. When the Day Job Plan Fails

Entry 21. The Second Career Problem

Entry 22. Your Brain After Dinner

Entry 23. Surprising Shortfalls

Entry 24. Second Career = Chaos?

Entry 25. Sheer Overwhelm

Entry 26. Trapped in Smallness

Entry 27. The Uninteresting Day-To-Day

Entry 28. Standard Thinking

Entry 29. A Name for Yourself

Entry 30. Stick to That, Please!

Entry 31. Nothing of Interest

Entry 32. Interest … But No Passion

Entry 33. Passion … But No Passion Project

Entry 34. Passion Project Resistance

Entry 35. The Stalled Passion Project

Entry 36. Inner Noise and Monkey Mind

Entry 37. Underestimating Your Smarts

Entry 38. Being Too Vigilant

Entry 39. Feeling Unsafe

Entry 40. When Anxiety Strikes

Entry 41. Your Tangled Thinking

Entry 42. Unwanted Obsessions

Entry 43. A Rain of Thoughts

Entry 44. Repetitive Thoughts

Entry 45. Lost Thoughts

Entry 46. Thought Investigation

Entry 47. Defensive Not Knowing

Entry 48. Having Language

Entry 49. No Comment

Entry 50. Getting a Grip

Entry 51. Tolerating Process

Entry 52. The Reality of Circumstances

Entry 53. Tolerating Solitude

Entry 54. The Dangers of Solitude

Entry 55. Insatiability

Entry 56. Competition

Entry 57. Mismatched Intelligence

Entry 58. The Smart Gap

Entry 59. Inevitable Sadness

Entry 60. Inevit…