An engineer, Mel Rusnov also loves music and describes cultivating that passion in her essay "The Artistry in Hidden Talents" in the book This I Believe: "I believe in cultivating hidden talents, buried and unrelated to what we do for a...

Jack Canfield, co-author of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, and The Success Principles, writes in his article What Do You Want in Life? about how to develop attitudes and strategies to achieve more. "One of the few differences between the...

Creative inspiration and energy can come from many sources, but the most important source is us - our own abilities, thoughts and feelings, including the inner stuff we may not want to look at because we think it is "immoral" or...

Eric Maisel, PhD notes that using a mindfulness strategy to become more centered may be "fighting nature," but thinks "That isn’t to say that it isn’t a good thing to fight nature. "For instance, you want productive obsessions but.

The SENG [Supporting Emotional Needs of the Gifted] newsletter includes this Q&A: Q: If I was gifted as a child, am I still gifted now? If I didn't use my 'giftedness', is it gone? SENG staff: Perhaps. Probably the more important...