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Why Smart People Hurt

A Guide for the Bright, the Sensitive, and the Creative

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Make your gifted life meaningful.

Overcome your unique challenges. The challenges smart and creative people encounter - from scientific researchers and genius award winners to best-selling novelists, Broadway actors, high-powered attorneys, and academics - often include anxiety, overthinking, mania, sadness, and despair. In Why Smart People Hurt, natural psychology specialist and creativity coach 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.

Find meaningful success. Do you understand what meaning is, what it isn’t, and how to create it? Do you know how to organize your day around meaning investments and meaning opportunities? Are you still searching for meaning after all these years? Many smart people struggle with reaching for or maintaining success because, after all of the work they put into attaining it, it still seems meaningless. In Why Smart People Hurt, Dr. Maisel will teach you how to stop searching for meaning and create it for yourself.

Learn from a truly thought-provoking personal growth book. In Why Smart People Hurt, you will find:

  • Evidence that you are not alone in your struggles with living in a world that wasn't built for you or your intelligence
  • Logic- and creativity-based strategies to cope with having a brain that goes into overdrive at the drop of a hat
  • Questions that will help you create your own personal road map to a calm and meaningful life

Consumers of true, natural self-help books for gifted people struggling with life, anxiety, and depression, like Living with Intensity, Misdiagnosis and Dual Diagnoses of Gifted Children and Adults, and Your Rainforest Mind, will learn how to create meaning in their lives with Why Smart People Hurt by Dr. Eric Maisel.

©2013 Eric Maisel (P)2020 Vibrance Press
Mental Health Mood Disorders Personal Development Personal Success Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Health Success
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love the book . i feel really relaxed while i was listening ...***** would recommend

love the book

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This book has very little to offer people of high I.Q. and, as a former chair of British Mensa, I can say that with confidence.

First of all, contrary to Mr. Maisel's assertion, Mensa does, in fact, provide a community (a village?) for people who are like-minded in as much as they have an instinctive understanding of each other's mentality and, generally, share a similar sense of humour. While the members of Mensa might not agree on all issues, they do at least understand each other's point of view and happily accept their differences; in fact, it's the differences of opinion that lead to the most stimulating conversations!

That aside, I'm not sure who this book is aimed at. It tells 'smart' people very little that they haven't already figured out for themselves and I can't imagine it's of much interest to the rest of the population. Moreover, it broadly portrays 'smart' people as rather neurotic and unstable. In my experience, there are as many grounded 'smart' people as there are 'not-so-smart' people. This book is a potboiler of the lowest kind.

Totally Patronising!

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Which ever publisher allowed this to be made into a book needs to fire. Lacks substance and depth. Shallow observations based on zero data and gross generalisation

Simply awful

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