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So I’m Angie I'd like to tell you a bit about myself.
The first two things you need to know are that I'm very creative and I'm very silly.
I sometimes refer to myself as the alpha Jill of All Trades, though not often, for two reasons. First, I prefer to call myself a Leonardo. Second, I think calling myself the alpha is kind of arrogant, and that’s not me. But it does sort of get the point across, so I sometimes say it.
For as long as I can remember, I have wanted to be everything and do everything.
At age 5, I took all the paper off the shelf in my kindergarten classroom. When my teacher instructed me to put back all but one sheet, my best friend Mark said, “She’s going to write a book.” Mrs. Carnahan, without missing a beat, said, “Well, then she’ll have to write it one page at a time.”
I did indeed write a book, and many more, one page at a time, while riding a wave of profound creativity that has at times been difficult and at other times exhilarating.
In my first ten years out of high school, I worked at more than 15 different jobs. Then I just went into business for myself and quit trying to hold down a job :)
Since 1996 Angie I’ve started more than ten businesses, including a web design firm, a pet photography business, a publishing company and a non-profit devoted to mental health awareness.
Also since 1996 I’ve written 88 books and ebooks, including three editions of The Leonardo Trait, an owner’s manual for the brains of profoundly creative people.
As a writer, photographer and graphic designer, as well as a generally creative thinker and energetic and impulsive creator of “stuff” of all kinds, I enjoy the intense energy and lightning flashes of inspiration that come with profound creativity.
As a person living with profound creativity, I understand the frustrations and difficulties that come with it, including extreme energy crashes, piles of unfinished projects and the reactions of people who find me and people like me overwhelming and uncomfortable to be with.
These advantages and disadvantages and the difficulties and enjoyment of living with multiple passions and profound creativity led me to coin the term The Leonardo Trait, and to write a book, three times, just for people like me—people who say YES!!!!!!!!!!!! to everything before they hear the question, people who put in twenty hours painting a rock to exactly match the desk where it will become a paperweight, people who send five emails in response to a simple question, people who know they’re different but don’t know why that’s good.
I wrote The Leonardo Trait, in short, so I would have someone to play with, and so would other Leonardos who read it.
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