Why So Many Artists Are Highly Sensitive People
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Why So Many Artists Are Highly Sensitive People
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#3Answering a personality questionnaire is always a great opportunity for me to appreciate my talents. Take the question "Do you have a rich, complex inner life?" Well, I certainly do, and thanks for reminding me to dwell on this fact.
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#4Better title would be "Why so many sensitive people are artists" imo. Small change on the first glance but important one.
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#5“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud”
― Émile Zola
A true artist is one who never calls him/herself an artist is my stance. It is usually when society sees a person's works and starts to give positive reviews that the inner artist is unleashed on the world. Sensitivity plays a part, but only insofar as the artist can channel art through the correct medium. If I'm electrosensitive (I constantly get electric shocks for example), then computers are probably the best medium. Someone with an ear for sound would likewise choose musical instruments to mirror back the sound of nature..
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#6Is it just because it's an excerpt, or do these researchers have serious blinders on? How about other hypotheses like:
- Michael Jackson's father beat him for mistakes.
- Performers try to connect with their audience. "Sensitivity" is a bundle of things which helps chances of success, at least if you don't have a big professional team creating your songs.
- People with some experience of unalienated labor ("imagining things and then bringing them into being" and a balance of imaginatively creating both people and artifacts [1]) don't have to deaden themselves as more alienated laborers must.
[1] From David Graeber's "Direct Action: an Ethnography" and "Dead zones of the imagination".
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#7Who said that openness and sensitivity are contradictory? Is the article building a straw man?
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#8“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud” ― Émile Zola A true artist is one who never calls him/herself an artist is my stance. It is usually when society sees a person's works and starts to give positive reviews that the inner artist is unleashed on the world. Sensitivity plays a part, but only insofar as the artist can channel art through the correct…
> If I'm electrosensitive (I constantly get electric shocks for example), then computers are probably the best medium.
This statement appears as mystical as tarot cards. What connection is there to getting electric shocks and using a computer other than some vague mystical correlation not founded on anything logical?
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#9“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud” ― Émile Zola A true artist is one who never calls him/herself an artist is my stance. It is usually when society sees a person's works and starts to give positive reviews that the inner artist is unleashed on the world. Sensitivity plays a part, but only insofar as the artist can channel art through the correct…
> If I'm electrosensitive (I constantly get electric shocks for example), then computers are probably the best medium. This statement appears as mystical as tarot cards. What connection is there to getting electric shocks and using a computer other than some vague mystical correlation not founded on anything logical?
This reads like the wrong combination of shoes and floor, resulting in huge ESD problems. Highly individual, too.
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#10“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud” ― Émile Zola A true artist is one who never calls him/herself an artist is my stance. It is usually when society sees a person's works and starts to give positive reviews that the inner artist is unleashed on the world. Sensitivity plays a part, but only insofar as the artist can channel art through the correct…
> If I'm electrosensitive (I constantly get electric shocks for example), then computers are probably the best medium. This statement appears as mystical as tarot cards. What connection is there to getting electric shocks and using a computer other than some vague mystical correlation not founded on anything logical?
Nature is self similar. I come from the school of thought that if something is prominent in my own nature, then it must resonate highly with something else just as prominent. Like attracts like and all of that.
Electrosensitivity as mystical? You could say that, but it genuinely is a case of intuition manually over-riding a brain with an otherwise high reliance on scientific surety.