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Why So Many Artists Are Highly Sensitive People

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Re: Why So Many Artists Are Highly Sensitive People

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Post by pekk »

treve wrote: post #46
zschuessler wrote: post #45

The described sensitivity is easily related to by software engineers. It's often difficult to receive an annual review or feedback from code commits. It's a feeling of wanting feedback to continue growth, and fearing it due to sensitivity. One book I've enjoyed which equips confidence is " Thanks for the Feedback. " It's a book by Douglas Stone & Sheila Heen of the Harvard Negotiation Project. Prepare to read one cha…

Sorry, but engineers are not artists. People need to stop elevating their profession and job titles to something they're not and take pride in what you actually are; which is pretty great in itself.

I don't know how elevated that is, you are an artist if you make art and art might be really simple.

Re: Why So Many Artists Are Highly Sensitive People

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Post by pzone »

rquantz wrote: post #36

Wow, artists have a rich inner life? Yo-Yo Ma feels happy, but also sometimes he feels sad? Isn't this just describing a human being?

Yeah, the emotional life is part and parcel of human experience. But this article is talking about a heightened sensitivity, take all of the above and multiply it a few times over. Not everyone needs to sleep for a week after going on vacation, cries during movies, or spends the rest of the weekend alone after going to a party Friday evening. Those are the sorts of personality traits the article is talking about.

Re: Why So Many Artists Are Highly Sensitive People

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mei0Iesh wrote: post #12
calibraxis wrote: post #6

Is 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…

This was research? I saw a romanticizing of celebrity musicians as cute little kittens, where it went on and on about, "Aww, look how adorably sensitive they are." For one thing, anyone who trains in music develops a heightened awareness to subtleties in sound. It is not surprising at all for a musician to report an awareness of richness in sound that others don't bother with. Just like a carpenter probably would rep…

Um, yes, it's certainly research.

The "heightened sensitivity" of musicians isn't just about being more aware of the richness of sound. The musician will likely score as more sensitive on every item of that test.

The third paragraph you write seems to be in perfect alignment with what the article is saying. I don't know what you are trying to get at in the fourth paragraph.

Re: Why So Many Artists Are Highly Sensitive People

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Post by tkmh »

treve wrote: post #46
zschuessler wrote: post #45

The described sensitivity is easily related to by software engineers. It's often difficult to receive an annual review or feedback from code commits. It's a feeling of wanting feedback to continue growth, and fearing it due to sensitivity. One book I've enjoyed which equips confidence is " Thanks for the Feedback. " It's a book by Douglas Stone & Sheila Heen of the Harvard Negotiation Project. Prepare to read one cha…

Sorry, but engineers are not artists. People need to stop elevating their profession and job titles to something they're not and take pride in what you actually are; which is pretty great in itself.

As Wendy Cope reminded us in Engineers' Corner.

Re: Why So Many Artists Are Highly Sensitive People

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Post by gbog »

fitzwatermellow wrote: post #18

A more interesting line of inquiry is why so many of those blessed with the highest instincts for creativity have so little empathy towards those around them. As if they are so in thrall with their own genius they have little capacity for the smallest kindnesses. Or are so focused on manifesting the perfect visions contained in their minds, any quotidian concerns seem far beneath them and an utter waste of time. Cons…

Not sure about Picasso, but I remember reading somewhere that Tolstoy tried to be good for his wife, but she was too superficial and egoist, and manipulative. He tried to act generously, giving to the farmers a part of the result of their labor, but she refused. Then he wanted to at least control his own writings and give for free the books he wrote, but to that she disagreed too.

I found where I had this information: Henri Guillemin yalked about Tolstoy. Ok, he's a leftist too.

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