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Are You Overthinking Or Are They Just Underthinking?
Are you often accused of overthinking? Do people tell you that you ought to be more chill and less analytical? More easy-going and less demanding? More go-with-the flow and less insightful? More quiet and less noisy? More dull and less sharp? That’s what I thought. All I can say is, please, do not stop *over*thinking.…
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This Is Your Brain On Giftedness
You have peculiar sensitivities, unruly anxieties, and effervescent expectations. Right? Next time someone asks you what giftedness and rainforest-mindedness is, you say this. After all, a rainforest is kind of peculiar, unruly, and effervescent. Of course, you can add the big-hearted compassion. Vast, deep, bold intelligence. Unparalleled curiosity. But, depending on who you are talking…
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Being Gifted May Not Be Such A Gift
I have been working with gifted kids and adults since the late 1970’s (were any of you even alive then?), and I am STILL stunned by your beauty. By your big-hearted compassion. By your vast, deep, bold intelligence. By your unparalleled curiosity. By your striving, your questing, your seeking. By your passionate drive to know.…
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Depressed? Anxious? Gifted? Get Yourself Some Intellectual And Creative Stimulation Pronto!
There might be many reasons you are feeling depressed or anxious. So many reasons. From trauma in your childhood to racism, pandemics, losses of loved ones, homophobia, climate change, illness, poverty, corrupt politicians, antisemitism, all of the other isms, and more. So many reasons. I might even include some lesser but occasionally significant depression and…
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Gifted Adults Around The World — What Do They Have In Common? Meet Alice In Brazil
The more rainforest-minded souls I meet, the more hope I have for humanity. No matter where in the world they happen to be, I see similar traits. Big-hearted, creative, deep-thinking, sensitive souls. Humans who are so darned smart and who are driven to use their superpowers for good. In case you missed them, profiles so…
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What My Twice-Exceptional Client Taught Me
I totally missed it. In my enthusiastic desire to avoid at all costs the all-too-often misdiagnoses of gifted kids and adults, I did not see what was right in front of me. I had worked with Jenny off and on, every other week, for about two years. She came to me after a difficult first…
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Gifted In Finland — What Are Gifted Adults Like Across Cultures?
Kaisa, 26, shows all the signs of being gifted. Maybe even exceptionally so. What are the signs? “…I learned to read at a young age and have always been an avid reader and super curious about everything. I have always been overly sensitive but was quickly told by parents and environment to shut down my…
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