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  • "About 15 to 20 percent of the population have this trait. It means you are aware of subtleties in your surroundings, a great advantage in many situations.
    It also means you are more easily overwhelmed when you have been out in a highly stimulating environment for too long..."

    Elaine Aron, www.hsperson.com


    "The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive."
    Pearl Buck (1892-1973)


    "Oh please be careful with me, I'm sensitive and I'd like to stay that way"
    Jewel - in her song I'm Sensitive

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Archive for April, 2007

What is our rush?

Tuesday, April 24th, 2007

“It is also good every so often to go away and relax a little for when you come back to your work your judgment will be better, since to remain constantly at work causes you to deceive yourself.”
Leonardo da Vinci
In her article What’s the rush?, Jenna Avery describes how constantly striving and being urgent about [...]

Jean Houston on sensitivity and perceptual capacity

Monday, April 9th, 2007

In our interview, Jean Houston comments about the Theory of Emotional Development of Kazimierz Dabrowski (which talks about levels of excitability or functioning), and about psychic ability in relation to giftedness.
Houston agrees that ‘psychic’ has been used in our culture as a pejorative term:
“Don’t I know it,” she says with a laugh. “I think what [...]

Hugh Laurie on overwhelm

Monday, April 9th, 2007

Hugh Laurie plays Dr. Gregory House on the tv series House M.D. Born in Oxford, England, he was educated at Eton and Cambridge. Besides acting and comedy, he has written a thriller, The Gun Seller, and a screenplay for the film version, and a second novel The Paper Soldier coming in September 2007.
[Rolling Stone magazine: [...]