Intellectual Excitability
Why a Novel? Long-Form Fiction as Catharsis for the Intellect
Max Massa was desperate for a way to put overexcitable mind to use for the world—or, failing that, merely to connect with other people who cared ideas. Could he rely on his imagination to make the product of his intellect more meaningful to others?
What Goes Into Free Thought? An Interview with Dr. Marta Lenartowicz of the School of Thinking
Think you know how to think? The brand new School of Thinking at Vrije Universiteit Brussel is designed to teach students precisely this. Dr. Marta Lenartowicz sat down with Third Factor Magazine to tell us just what the School does—and offers you a few ideas to of areas to focus your own thinking, even if you can’t make it to Belgium for class.
Practicing Parrhesia: Fearless Speech for Agreeable Overthinkers Part II in a Series on Intellectual Intensity and Cancel Culture
Socrates and the Buddha have some suggestions for you highly agreeable types who can’t quite bring yourself to speak up about something important.
Regulate Overexcitability to Empower Your Voice – Part II: The Mind
Voice coach Laura Stavinoha explains how to keep your intense mind from running away with you while you speak, leaving your audience in its dust.
Cancel Culture and the Intellectually Intense Part I: Why We Need a Healthy & Courageous Speech Ideal
It’s always been hard to be a questioner, but today’s political atmosphere—combined with digital mobbing tools—have made it harder than ever. What’s a good-faith questioner to do?
Regulate Overexcitability to Empower Your Voice – Part I: Emotions
Voice coach Laura Stavinoha shares some methods for keeping your emotions from subtly seeping out through your voice.
Self-Creation After Chaos An Interview with Lotte van Lith
- Issue 7: Creating the Self
- Autopsychotherapy
- Creativity
- Eating Disorder
- Emotional Excitability
- Excitability
- Intellectual Excitability
- Interview
- Level II: Unilevel Disintegration
- Level III: Spontaneous Multilevel Disintegration
- Level IV: Organized Multilevel Disintegration
- Memoir
- Mental Health
- Positive Disitegration
Chaos around her and intensity within her led the teenage Lotte van Lith to an eating disorder. Now, having recovered and reintegrated, she helps gifted people express their intensity with self-compassion—and let loose their incredible creativity in the process.
How Overexcitabilities Manifest Through Your Voice
Voice coach Laura Stavinoha can hear your overexcitability in your voice—and she can tell whether it’s empowering you or leaving you vulnerable.
Getting Acquainted with a Stranger
From her earliest days as an intense, gifted girl, Benita Jeanelle spent her life trying to be who she was expected to be, and to achieve what she was supposed to achieve—until it caused her very personality to fragment.
There and Half-Way Back Again How Openness Guided My Journey through Politics
How does openness to experience affect a person’s political stance? For Andrea, it’s caused her views to continuously evolve—as has her view on disagreement itself.