Developing Multiple Talents
The personal side of creative expression
By Douglas Eby
Kindle Edition
Reviews and praises :
“Part book about creativity, part compendium of useful tidbits, quotations and research results, and part annotated bibliography, this is a wildly useful and highly entertaining resource. Douglas Eby, a multi-talented writer himself, provides intriguing tastes of amazingly varied and comprehensive views of creativity, creators and the creative life, plus where and how to find more.”
– Stephanie S. Tolan, fiction writer and consultant on the needs of the gifted.
www.stephanietolan.com www.storyhealer.com
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“It is not always easy to host a kind of overdose of talents: Often one career direction is not a sufficient outlet for one’s creative thrusts. And being basically uncommon may impede the finding of proper peers as a guide or reference for personal maturation. Douglas Eby’s book is kaleidoscopical, just like the subject he describes. Every turn of a page offers new and colorful peers that reflect on the book’s ingredients. The many links make it possible to read in different levels of detail. The chapters help the reader not to get overwhelmed, that is, if you know when to pause reading.”
– Willem Kuipers, counselor for extra intelligent people; author of the book
Enjoying the Gift of Being Uncommon. www.ximension.com
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“Packed full of insights and resources for the creative life, Developing Multiple Talents offers new ways to thrive as a creative person. Douglas Eby addresses many of the issues we face – fear, lack of confidence and focus – allowing the creative person to feel understood and ultimately empowered. Normalizing the challenges in the creative process provides a huge step toward coping with those challenges. Douglas’s book gives readers a resource for understanding and accepting our problems and our gifts. I highly recommend Developing Multiple Talents as a resource for anyone who wants to understand the psychology behind our creative drive.”
- Cynthia Morris, Writing and creativity coach
Original Impulse www.originalimpulse.com
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“In my practice working with gifted and talented individuals, I have consistently encountered characteristics, psychological processes and temperaments that commonly overlap. Other books have focused on these aspects individually, but Douglas Eby does an extraordinary job of integrating these complex and dimensional characteristics into a complete overview of the multitalented personality. Developing Multiple Talents is pivotal in providing a thorough understanding and a more comprehensive portrait of the gifted, creative and talented individual. Eby’s extensive collection of previous research, writings and interviews will reshape how we perceive and view the artist, actor or inventor.”
- Lisa A. Riley, MA, LMFT, Creativity coach, Family Therapist
theartofmind.com Therapy4Artists.com
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“This book is fascinating – a must-read it if you’re interested in creativity, giftedness, high sensitivity, or high achievement!”
Dr. Cheryl Arutt – on her Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/DrArutt
Cheryl Arutt, Psy.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist, specializing in creative artist issues, trauma recovery, and fertility. She is a forensic and media consultant, and a frequent psychological expert on CNN, HLN, truTV and Fox News. http://drcherylarutt.com/
Hear podcast interview with her and see links to her guest articles on TalentDevelop:
Psychologist Cheryl Arutt on Creative Artist Issues.
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> Book review by Patrick Ross - on his blog The Artist’s Road:
“..Developing Multiple Talents is a comprehensive overview of many perspectives on creativity, from scientists to creatives themselves… Anyone who has spent much time researching creativity online has likely come across Eby’s writings. He’s the man behind a site filled with information and profiles of creatives, Talent Development Resources, and he shares resources on Twitter and Facebook. I’ve been reading Eby’s works for some time now, as my fascination with creativity is surpassed perhaps only by him, and a few others we both like to cite, including Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Eric Maisel…There is plenty in his book that one could make use of in living a more creative life.”
Continued in his post: Teaching by Personal Example.
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From the Psychology Today blog Finding the Next Einstein – Why smart is relative, by Jonathan Wai, PhD – in his post
Steve Jobs Leveraged His Intelligence to More Effectively Create :
“After all, Steve Jobs clearly had exceptional intelligence, but maybe it was his creative training in the arts that allowed him to leverage that intelligence in a way that was clearly unique and personal and gave him that special edge. Perhaps this is nicely captured in the popular writer Douglas Eby’s recent book Developing Multiple Talents: The Personal Side of Creative Expression.”
Jonathan Wai, Ph.D., is a psychologist, writer, and research scientist at Duke University.
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> Book Review by Edith Johnston, PhD:
“Douglas Eby shares his story, others’ stories, and a vast amount of information on what it means to be multi-talented. He describes the delights and the challenges. He leads us to options for managing the varied characteristics and integrating all aspects of being multi-talented. In his usual style Douglas organizes a vast amount of information and experiences for us to explore straight through or with as many side trails as we desire. His personal explorations have provided an important resource for all who are searching to understand and integrate their high abilities and multiple talents.”
Edith Johnston, PhD, is a Counselor and Coach for Mult-talented individuals in expressing their potential. The above quotes are from her book review on her site “How To” Life Consultants.
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Video: People With Multiple Talents
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Contents
- Intelligence
- Obsession – Perseverance
- Identity – Ego – Self Esteem – Eccentricity
- Integrity
- Autonomy
- High Sensitivity
- Intensity
- Sexuality
- Awareness – Thinking – Intuition
- Maturity
- Happiness – Mood
- Inspiration – Passion
- Courage – Fear – Anxiety
- Environment
- Relationships / Connections
- Addiction
- Censorship
- Perfectionism – Criticism
- Pressure to Perform
- Schooling
- Work – Career
- Healing
- Meaning
- Visualization
- Intention
- Balance
- Challenges and Rewards
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PDF, Kindle & Paperback
Amazon.com / Barnes&Noble
The book is available in these editions:
Paperback – 218 pages $10.85 (Amazon.com)
{Note – the PDF version is available free to purchasers of the paperback.}
Developing Multiple Talents
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Kindle Edition $6.85
Developing Multiple Talents
[Read it on the new Kindle Fire.]
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PDF – Immediate download $6.85
Developing Multiple Talents
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Barnes and Noble editions
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About me – from my Amazon.com Author Page
Douglas Eby, M.A./Psychology, is a writer, researcher and online publisher on the psychology of creative expression and personal growth. He is author of the Talent Development Resources series of sites http://talentdevelop.com
Also see my Twitter page TalentDevelop and Facebook page TalentDevelop
- From the book:
"I want to do wardrobe. I want to do hair. I want to do makeup… writing… directing… producing. I want to do all of it. I like it."
- Abigail Breslin (Actor: "Little Miss Sunshine" and other movies.) (Quote from imdb.com)
"Photography, painting or poetry - those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things, they are my way of communicating."
- Viggo Mortensen (Actor, The Lord of the Rings etc) (imdb.com)
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Creative polymathy
In his post “That’s DR. Winnie to you: A New Child Star Stereotype” (on his Psychology Today blog), creativity researcher James C. Kaufman, Ph.D. writes about a number of people well-known as child stars, now grown, who have explored talents outside of acting.
He writes: “One of the research topics in creativity that has always fascinated me has been creative polymathy – the ability to be creative in more than one domain.”
Some examples, in addition to Viggo Mortensen:
Jamie Lee Curtis has written a number of children's books. Jane Seymour is author of several books and art kits, and is an accomplished and widely published painter. Bryce Dallas Howard has credits as a vocalist for a movie soundtrack, and as a producer, screenwriter and director. Jeff Bridges has released an album of his music.
Julia Cameron is author of The Artist's Way and more than thirty books, and is an award-winning poet and playwright, with extensive film and theater credits. She has a quote on her site www.theartistsway.com that I really appreciate: "Most of us have no idea of our real creative height. We are much more gifted than we know."
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Mary-Elaine Jacobsen [author of The Gifted Adult] notes in her article Giftedness in the Workplace that gifted adults "may fail to respect their own need for solitude, reflection, and time to daydream or play with concepts and ideas."
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