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Why Smart People Hurt

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

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Why Smart People Hurt

By: Eric Maisel
Narrated by: Seth Podowitz
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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
Mood Disorders Personal Success Psychology Mental Health

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An overall good book

I find it disappointing that the authors needed to discredit creationism based on humans being imperfec, it simply wasn't necessary and put a damper on the book for me which I mostly enjoyed. the argument wasn't necessary to the overall message in the book.

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A few useful points

This book started like it was written for me and I couldn’t wait to get into it. However, I found it to be quite contradictory with respect to its own core tenets in places, and I’ve seen softer approaches to advocating a particular belief system in television evangelists. It does give a few good pointers about creating meaning in life , but for someone in the depths of depression, I suspect it might be too simplistic - and unachievable - an approach.

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Probably better in hard copy

Not a bad book from the couple of chapters I listened too. I was interested in the content but, for me, the issues discussed needed a visual angle. The fact that there are questions to answer and this interactive element didn't work for me in audio book form.

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Just what I needed when going through some big life questions

Very thought provoking and possibly life changing book. Great insight on human experience. A daring challenge for all smart and self loathing people to answer with their own resolute. I have to read it again

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Amazing! Guide for life!!

Never felt so seen! Lots of saturated content so best to listen in breaks but great that it's a quick listen.

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Stupidest book

The challenges written in this book that smart people face cam be overcome by anyone who has put an ounce of thought in solving those problems instead of blaming the society for those problems.

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