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RELEASE THE MUSE WITHIN 1 be sure to choose your parents with care Studies show creative people come from homes in which intellectual and creative pursuits are valued, and they are encouraged to do well at school 2 indulge in hero worship as a child Creative people read voraciously as children and often model themselves after heroes or heroines from books 3fail miserably at school Paradoxically many creative people perform poorly at school. Actor Anthony Hopkins has said " I was a dummy - I would sit perplexed drink, or drinking ink" 4 Be unhappy Nearly all Nobel Prize winners have come from troubled homes. As Gore Vidal writes " hatred of one parent or the other can make an Ivan the Terrible or a Hemingway - the protective love, however, of two devoted parents can absolutely destroy an artist " 5 before you reach adulthood have a loved one die on you One study suggests that only adolescent delinquents and suicidal depressives have rates of and a or childhood bereavement as high as those of creative people. 6 become mentally unstable It is well documented that creative people are more likely than the general population to suffer from illnesses like manic depressive disorder. Even those who do not suffer from mental illness tend to be more impulsive, depressed, or angry than other people. 7at all times be aloof Overcoming the difficulties that are likely to have beset their childhood often means that creative people are extremely driven and had developed strong self-belief to mask their inner insecurities; this can make them appear arrogant loners. Source: Veronica Tonay "the art of dreaming: using your dreams to unlock creativity" (Airlift)