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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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What to Do When You Are Overwhelmed By Your Own Intense Drive to Create, Question, and Know
When you have a rainforest mind, you have an extraordinarily active thinking, feeling, imagining, designing, questioning, intuiting, seeking, wondering, worrying personhood. This rainforest (gifted!) phenomenon is not only a mind-thinking thing. It includes all of who you are. (If it had not been too cumbersome, I would have called it rainforest mind-heart-body-spirit-soul.) Many of my […]
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How Do I Know You Are Gifted?
How do I convince you that you are, in fact, gifted? (Yes, today we are using the G word.) Well. I hear giftedness in your voice, as you talk quickly, intensely, and passionately. I see it in your drive for understanding and creativity and in your explorations of the intricacies of, oh, everything. I feel […]
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What Do Rainforest-Minded (Gifted) Humans Want?
Here it is. In a nutshell. “I’m drowning in a sea of well meaning phrases like ‘I’m in awe of the scope of your thinking’ … oh do fuck off with your awe, I don’t want it or need it. I’m bored, and sick to death of making myself accessible to other people. I want […]
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Gifted In Serbia
“I can hear and feel with such an intensity. I can understand what people are feeling just by their look or presence. I can very often predict what they are going to say. Bad styling and bad architecture are literally killing me. I am looking for details in stuff that are meaningless for others. I […]
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What Is Obvious To You Is A Mystery To Them And What Is Obvious To Them Is A Mystery To You
No wonder you have trouble finding friends and partners. This explains so much, does it not? With your rainforest mind, you are always reading, researching, pondering, diving deep into the mental, emotional, educational, imaginative, intuitive, and spiritual caldron. With glee, I might add, when no one is getting in your way. You are enjoying yourself. […]
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What Does Exceptional Giftedness Look Like In A Teen?
If you or your people are still wondering if giftedness exists or if identifying gifted children is only a way to create division and increase inequality, let me introduce you to Judith. She was a 16-year-old high school senior attending honors classes at a local university. Dark-haired, brown-eyed, fast talking, and extremely intense, she came […]
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I’m Writing A Book On Love — For Sensitive, Deep Thinking, Creative, Curious, Smart, Persnickety Humans
A big thank you to all of you who have written to me so far with your thoughts, experiences, and questions. This is exciting! I want to encourage more of you to write and I am going to provide a few more guidelines for those of you who need some prompts. (If you have already […]
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Just Because You Can Do The Task Better, Does Not Mean You Have To Do The Task — And Other Important Reminders For Your Gifted Soul
Just because you can do the task faster, better, and more completely, does not mean you have to agree to do that task. Just because you were told you must live up to your great potential, does not mean you have to be the best whatever who ever lived, win all the awards before you […]
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