Sensitive Creatives: Ask “Is this a risk? Or an experiment?”

Many of us who are highly sensitive also have the trait of high-sensation-seeking, which can feel really paradoxical at times. On the one hand, as sensitives, we are cautious. We don’t like unnecessary risks. We don’t like making mistakes.

And we have a deep-seated need to understand things and not rush into them headfirst. 

Then, on the other hand is our high-sensation-seeking side, which is decidedly a bird of a different feather.

We tend to get bored easily. We love variety...