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Overexcitabilities — Can’t Live With Them, Can’t Live Without Them
Overexcitabilities. Those pesky little traits that make your friends roll their eyes, relatives recommend medication and neighbors head home early. Maybe you talk fast and often about your passion for stackable brain specimen coasters. Maybe you cry over the Facebook video of the adorable four year old telling his mother why he must become a vegetarian. Maybe you…
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Single? Lonely? Gifted? Listen Up.
If you’re single and feeling lonely, listen up. Because I know what you’re thinking. You’ve tried. Tinder. Plenty of Fish. Match. E-Harmony. The Church Barbecue. Nothing works. You must be too much. Too much for love. After all, you overwhelm your friends with your intensity. You’re too sensitive to shoot-’em-up-movies, to screeching leaf blowers, to wafting…
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Most Popular Post of 2014 — If I’m So Smart Why Am I So Dumb?
People may have told you that you were smart. But you may not feel smart. Why? Because you graduated from college with a 2.65 grade point average after changing your major 5 times. Why? Because you never finish any of the projects you start. Why? Because you can’t decide what color to paint the bedroom…
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My Overexcitable Hair
Admit it. You exude effervescence, exuberance and ebullience. Maybe it’s in the way you talk. Or the way you write. Maybe it’s in how you gush over photos from the Mars Rover. Or how you swoon over Sherlock. In my last post, I briefly explained “overexcitabilities.” (OEs) The expression comes from psychologist K. Dabrowski‘s research on giftedness. He says…
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The Arrogant Know-It-All Conundrum
My counseling clients talk fast. They use words I don’t recognize. They notice when I’m a teensy weensy bit distracted. I don’t know how it happened that I became a therapist for smart people. OK, for g-g-gifted people. Seriously, on the continuum of giftedness, I’m BG. (barely gifted) I’m not asking you to feel sorry for me. I love my…
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Don’t Let the Chainsaws Cut You Down
If you have a rainforest mind, chances are, you’ve met a lot of chainsaws. Maybe you weren’t invited to birthday parties because the other kids didn’t want to hear about the BBC documentaries that you loved. Maybe you were bullied in school for choosing NASA over Disneyland or Jane Austen over Justin Bieber. Maybe your teacher told you that “no one…
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Exuberance and Unending Curiosity
Do people tell you to lighten up when you’re just trying to enlighten them? Individuals with rainforest minds are often intense and quite bright. They love learning new things and sharing what they learn with others. But you may run into trouble when your cohorts don’t appreciate your long detailed descriptions or your esoteric musings. Perhaps…
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