Achieving and excitability
“Brokeback Mountain” star Heath Ledger can often “get twitchy” he admits: “Sometimes I find it hard sitting still, usually when I’m in the spotlight or even in rehearsal. My nervous energy comes streaking out of my fingerprints. My hands go all over the place.” [Los Angeles Times, March 5 2006]
Nicole Kidman has commented: “You live with a lot of complicated emotions as an actor, and they whirl around you and create havoc at times. And yet, as an actor you’re consciously and unconsciously allowing that to happen… It’s my choice, and I would rather do it this way than live to be 100… Or rather than choosing not to exist within life’s extremities. I’m willing to fly close to the flame.” [Interview, Oct 2003]
Psychomotor and emotional excitability are forms of “a higher than average capacity for experiencing internal and external stimuli, based on a higher than average responsiveness of the nervous system” according to a description of the personality development theory of Kazimierz Dabrowski, MD, PhD.
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