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How I Ignored My Impostor Syndrome to Create a Career Working with Smart People

I had no idea what I was getting into. When I graduated from college, I was excited to start my dream job as a sixth grade teacher in a middle school. I was young, eager, and awkward and determined to bring all of the innovative ideas of the late ’70s into my classroom. And I…

October 7, 2022

career path, education, gifted education, impostor syndrome, psychotherapy
If You Were Gifted, Wouldn’t You Be An Arrogant Know-It-All With Two PHDs in Astrophysics?

Maybe. Maybe not. Click here to watch me pontificating (briefly) on the subject. In case you do not want to watch me pontificate and you would rather read a more detailed version of my pontification, here ya go: I have met a whole lot of gifted folks in my somewhat quirkified life. I realize this…

November 1, 2021

achievement, career path, education, gifted adults, gifted kids, identity, multipotentiality
So Many Career Paths, So Little Time

“If I had 10 lives, I wouldn’t be able to do everything I wanted to.” “My problem is I love to learn a job, then I optimize the job to do it in the fastest possible way, then I’m bored, and I want to move on to something else.” “Sometimes, there are so many things…

April 18, 2014

Barbara Sher, career path, Carmen Medina, David Whyte, dilettante, job, Laurence Boldt, Lois Kelly, multipotentiality, rainforest mind, rebelsatwork.com

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