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Your Rainforest Mind — The Latest Podcast Interview
Here is the link to an hour long interview of me with Australian, Sophia Elliott, of Our Gifted Kids. You will get to hear my sultry voice, learn the reason I devised the rainforest metaphor, and visit the challenges gifted adults navigate. Walk my path from public school teacher to psychotherapist, blogger, author, consultant, and…
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Holidays, Books, Poofy Hair, and Other Important Matters
You may know I have been making my debut on Instagram with clever memes and shocking hilarious revealing occasional videos. I imagine I am the oldest video meme-ographer in Instagram history. Below is my most recent 4 minute video. I wanted to share it with you, my dearest bloggEEs, so you can see the face,…
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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…
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You Know You Have A Rainforest Mind When…
There are seventeen unread or partially read books piled next to your bed. And you are browsing on the powells.com website just in case. You have been told that what is obvious to you is not apparent to everyone. Really? But it is so simple, you declare with dismay. Your thinking and your style of…
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A Gifted Woman From India
Anu did not think she was smart. She did not excel in mathematics. In India, where she grew up, the gifted ones were the math stars. If you loved music, art, theatre, and literature, like Anu did, you were not considered particularly intelligent, much less gifted. If you were restless, highly imaginative, sensitive, and curious,…
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Can Gifted Kids Become Ungifted Adults?
Heck no. Just to be clear. But. Well. You may feel ungifted now that you are in your 40’s and you haven’t reached the goals you had at seven. At seven, when you were such a star. All that enthusiasm. Curiosity. Creativity. You knew all the answers. You asked all the questions. Everyone said you…
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Gifted And Lonely In Belgium
Just yesterday, 26 people in Bangladesh and 9 in Qatar were reading my blog. 10 in South Africa, 12 in Turkey, 1 in Kenya, and 6 in Sudan, among many others, around the world. We are not alone, my dearest rainforest-minded darlings. We are not alone. Of course, you may still feel lonely. Like Elien,…
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