“Perhaps the most difficult thing for creative individuals to bear is the sense of loss and emptiness they experience when, for some reason, they cannot work. This is especially painful when a person feels his or her creativity drying out.” –From http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/index.php?term=19960701-000033&page=4

This is so incredibly accurate that I had to post a link to this article based on that alone. Being prevented from following our ideas gives us an incredible amount of pain. It took me two years to get over it, and I still feel a bit resentful.

The rest of the article is rubbish because it consistently embraces both sides of each personality dichotomy. I’m all for eliminating false dichotomies, but I fail to see how one can be both introverted and extroverted, for example – the two are opposing conditions. Introverts gain energy from being alone and lose it with others. Extroverts gain it from being with others and lose it alone.