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How To Face Your Fear Of Failure
I could not have said it better myself. In the words of a courageous bloggEE: “…Fear of failure – yes, I’ve had that too, and still have. I was a perfectionist all the way to my fingertips and toes (and still am). I almost drowned in the impostor syndrome, falling into the bottomless pit of…
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Fear Of Failure, Fear Of Success, Passion For Excellence — The Complexity Of Perfectionism
Before we get into it, I have to share this moment of insight. Have you struggled with what to say when people ask you, what do you do for a living? Or they want to know, how are you? Or they ask you for your favorite book or your favorite color or your favorite documentary…
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Learning Comes Easily To Gifted Kids And Adults — How Might That Be A Problem?
What if learning has always been easy for you. What if you are successful at pretty much everything you try. How might that be a problem? Well, sweetie pie (may I call you sweetie pie?), here ya go: If you have been recognized as gifted, the one with great potential, and so lucky to be…
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Giftedness, Multipotentiality, and Your Fear of Losing Interest (FOLI)
You’ve heard of FOMO. Fear Of Missing Out. It’s a thing. Well, if you have multipotentiality. Which you know you do. You may suffer from FOLI. Fear Of Losing Interest. What is FOLI? First, you have to understand multipotentiality. Does this describe you? You have soooo many interests. Since you were a little tyke, you’ve…
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A Gifted Kid’s Conundrum — Part Two — Anxiety and Perfectionism
You may have read about Ben. He’s the gifted teen who said “I have to know it before I learn it.” He learned to read early. No one taught him. Learning was easy. He knew what they were teaching in school before they taught it. He came to believe that all learning happened this way.…
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I Have to Know it Before I Learn It — A Gifted Kid’s Conundrum
My 16-year-old client, I’ll call him Ben, was struggling in school. No one thought he was gifted. His grades were average. He didn’t turn in many assignments. He didn’t get high test scores. He was so anxious, he’d miss many days of school. His parents were confused. They knew he was capable of completing the…
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The Top Ten Reasons Why You Should Love Your Impostor Syndrome
As you may have heard, ahem, I have written a book that will be released next month, June 2016. I’m noticing just a teensy weensy bit of impostor syndrome. Well, OK, maybe it’s not so teensy weensy. Possibly because it’s infused with generous amounts of fear: of failure, success, overwhelm, and, oh, utter humiliation and devastation…
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