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

    By Eric Maisel

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    The challenges smart and creative people encounter—from scientific researchers, genius award winners, to bestselling novelists, Broadway actors, high-powered attorneys, and academics— often include anxiety, over-thinking, mania, sadness, and despair.
    Specifically, Dr. Maisel examines:
    • “racing brain syndrome”
    • living in an anti-intellectual culture
    • finding ideas worth loving
    • dealing with boredom and hypersensitivity
    • finding meaning in their lives and their work
    • struggling to achieve success
    In Why Smart People Hurt, psychologist 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.
    His thoughtful strategies include using logic and creativity to cope with the problems of having a brain that goes into overdrive at the drop of a hat. With a series of questions at the end of each chapter, he guides the reader to create his or her own roadmap to a calm and meaningful life.
    Why Smart People Hurt     is a must-read for parents of gifted children as well as the millions of smart and creative people that are searching for a more meaningful life. 

    For more information please visit: www.whysmartpeoplehurt.com
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRed Wheel Weiser
    Release dateSep 1, 2013
    ISBN9781609258856
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    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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