Is Sensitivity an Advantage?敏感到底是优点还是缺点？

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All the time the message sensitive people get isn’t to celebrate who they are. It’s that they should “overcome” their sensitivity and “toughen up”. Putting aside that this approach doesn’t work， it’s wrongheaded. Sensitivity is largely genetic， and not something you can turn off. It is a trait related to giftedness and something we should accept with pleasure. In fact， according to three decades of research， it’s not only a healthy trait， but it also serves as a powerful advantage.

As a personality trait， being sensitive means you take in more information from your environment， and you do more with it. Sensitive people are wired at a brain level to process information more deeply than others do. That includes sensory input， emotional input， and ideas. If you’re sensitive， this deep processing changes the way you see the world. You probably notice what others miss， think， and feel deeply， and have a vivid inner life.

The most well-known and celebrated sensitive gift is creativity. Sensitive people tend to be highly creative， and many—perhaps most—artists， musicians， and actors are themselves sensitive people. Many of our greatest scientists throughout history have been sensitive people， including Charles Darwin. Sensitive people have this capacity for creation because they tend to be deep thinkers who spend more time and energy turning problems over in their heads—and end up seeing more possibilities and solutions.

一直以来，敏感的人得到的信息并不是庆祝自己是个敏感的人，而是应该“克服”自己的敏感，“坚强起来”。（剩余2048字）