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Black Swan

2010

A committed dancer struggles to maintain her sanity after winning the lead role in a production of Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake."

108 min

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Investors and Entrepreneurs Need to Address the Mental Health Crisis in Startups

The most brilliant and creative amongst us are sometimes the most troubled, and nowhere is that clearer than in the entrepreneurial ecosystem.

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Jake Chapman
2018
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When Envy and Jealousy Get in the Way of Your Creativity and Artistic Career

Jealousy and envy are normal, but you don’t have to get stuck in these feelings. You can use these feelings to help you get where you want.

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Mihaela Ivan Holtz
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Can Envy Get in the Way of Your Creative Career?

Unhealthy comparing can be self-limiting—perhaps especially for creative people, who often have the personality trait of high sensitivity, which typically includes stronger emotional reactions.

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Douglas Eby
2019
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The Envy Map: Your GPS to Greater Creativity

Creativity coach Jennifer Mills Kerr provides her top tips on the creative life.

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Eric R. Maisel
2021
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Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire, and How to Want What You Need

A groundbreaking exploration of why we want what we want, and a toolkit for freeing ourselves from chasing unfulfilling desires. Humans don’t desire anything independently. Human desire is mimetic—we imitate what other people want.

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Luke Burgis
2024
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05:22

Artists Struggle With Self-Confidence. Do You?

Most artists I know struggle with self-confidence. It takes real guts to put your work out there, to reveal the most vulnerable parts of yourself through your art. But self-confidence isn’t something you’re born with. It’s something you build.

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2020
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Are You an Artist Who Suffers From Occasional or Chronic Low Self-Esteem?

very often even the most talented and intelligent artists don’t see their positive qualities and achievements from an objective perspective. They notice their weaknesses and fail to attain their objectives. In my opinion, most artists could use a lesson on how to improve self-esteem.

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Renee Phillips
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Are Self-Esteem and Creativity Connected?

You have what it takes to make art, if you make the choice to take what it takes. None of us knows whether our work will end up being great or not great, remembered or forgotten.

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Priscilla Long
2016
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10:22

How Modern Work Pressure Distorts Our Identity | Burnout

In the first part of The National’s series Battling Burnout, Canadian author and workplace expert Rahaf Harfoush tells Andrew Chang that pressures in the modern workplace are distorting our identities by often placing success at work at the expense of mental and physical well-being.

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2019
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Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life

Based on a far-reaching study of thousands of individuals, finding flow contends that we often walk through our days unaware and out of touch with our emotional lives.

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Mihály Csíkszentmihályi
1998
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Jealousy/Envy